College Quotes - Page 4

• For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, Down And, Next

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• There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

  Wentworth Miller

  Wall, School, Law

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

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• I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

  Scott Wolf

  Life, I Realized

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

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• I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

  Grover Furr

  People, Crime, Obnoxious

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• Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

  Gene Green

  Communication, America, Citizens

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• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Past, Men, Conservative

  Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

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• The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

  Leonard Boswell

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Important, Teach

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

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• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Home

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

  Desmond Bagley

  Education, Men, Fool

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Learning, Dust, Years

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• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  Garry Trudeau

  Graduation, World, Speech

  "Peace, war, economy dominate graduation speeches" by Patricia McCormack, www.upi.com. May 29, 1982.

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• When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

  Lynn Swann

  Girl, Football, League

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• I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

  James Worthy

  Basketball, Letters, Worthy Opponents

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• A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

  Edward Malloy

  Degrees, Persons, Prepared

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• Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Andrew Wiles

  Umpires, People, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Periods, Wanted

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  John Thorn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

  Bernie Worrell

  Known

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• I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

  Jeremy London

  School, Lucky, Boots

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• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Suze Orman

  Real, Kids, Looks

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• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  John E. Walker

  Oxford, Degrees, Chemistry

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• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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