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• Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

  Paul Smith

  Teaching, Artist, Association

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• It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

  Alexander Chee

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.

  Hershel Shanks

  Country, Believe, Years

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

  Alissa Nutting

  Writing, People, Looks

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Stress, Ideas, People

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• The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Future, Intellectual, Development

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Self, America

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• The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
  Younger and pinker every year,
  Bloom gradually out of reach.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Girl, Women, Years

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Passion, Sitting, Computer

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Kitchen, Tables, Parliament

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• Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

  Philip Greenspun

  Average, Years, Visions Of The Future

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• There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Taken, Thoughtful, Light

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• I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, People, Want

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• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Rights, Numbers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

  Godfrey

  Smart, Thinking, Idiot

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• Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

  Tucker Max

  Needs, Postmodernism, Plans

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• You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

  Werner Herzog

  Life, Nice, Mean

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• In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

  Gad Saad

  Exercise, Reality, Profound

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• Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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