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• Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Education, Want, Requirements

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• Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Money, Numbers, Car

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• I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

  Sergei Bubka

  Sports, Running, Thinking

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.

  Claire Messud

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage

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• I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

  Willard Wigan

  Hair, Mad

  "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

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• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  Eugene Genovese

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

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• Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

  Dean Wesley Smith

  Writing, Fiction, Yeah

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• This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Strong, Hate

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• Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

  Tom Waits

  Ems, Ears, Towns

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• Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Rome, Law, America

  Charles Chiniquy (1985). “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church”, p.283, Chick Publications

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• Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.

  Ellen Willis

  Home, College, Social Values

  "The Pernicious Concept of 'Balance'". "The Chronicle of Higher Education", September 9, 2005.

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• It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Cancer, Burning, World

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Tourists, Stones

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• With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Pairs, Hundred, Members

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 5: "Harvard Years", p. 91, 1991.

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• For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

  Ann Coulter

  Years, Stories, Vietnam

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• A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Law, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.274

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• Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Teacher, Noble

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• Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Moving, Home, Catholic

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• I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

  Judy Tenuta

  Philosophy

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Clouds, Sky, Poetry

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• I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Thinking, Three, Fundamentals

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Long, Students

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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