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• I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

  Vance Havner

  Honesty, Hypocrite, Hollywood

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• Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, Wall, Book

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Home, Humor

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• Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Science

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• A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Truth, Textbooks, May

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• Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

  Bill Gates

  Years, World, Able

  "Bill Gates Is Wrong. College Campuses Will Not Fade Away" by Larry Atkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2010.

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• I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.

  Howard Pyle

  Generosity, Who Cares, Should

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• Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

  Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

  Spiritual, Flower, Divinity

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• Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

  Rollo May

  Beach, Inspiration, Writing

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

  Robert Bateman

  Giving, Relaxation

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

  Charles Darwin

  Determination, Book, Science

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• But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.

  Galileo Galilei

  Writing, Wish, Research

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Humility, Lessons

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.82, Xist Publishing

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• The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Powerful, Book, Religion

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.105, Penguin

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• The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

  Adolf Hitler

  Depressing, Party, Exercise

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• The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.92

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• At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

  Robert Cialdini

  Teaching, Assessment, Class

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• Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

  Jane Smiley

  Teaching, Eye, Thinking

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• Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Teaching, Unnecessary

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.69

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• My parents never really lecture me.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Parent

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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• It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, School, Museums

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• I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

  Martin A. Siegel

  Emotional, Community, Resistance

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• A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

  Hendrik Lenstra

  Math, Two, Scene

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• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  Hari Kunzru

  Criticism, Wish, Hungary

  "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.

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