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• The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

  James Lileks

  Newspapers, Conversation

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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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• 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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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Dad, Father, Lunch

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• Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Teacher, Numbers

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Rights, Giving, Wish

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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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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• In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

  Ben Rattray

  Believe, College, Roles

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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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• 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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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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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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• 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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• 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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• I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

  Maxine Kumin

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

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• Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Who I Am, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Book, Yield

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

  Emil Artin

  Book, Giving, Suffering

  Emil Artin (1965). “Collected papers”

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• I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

  Paul Samuelson

  Book, Chicago, Taught

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.

  John Muir

  Book, Flames, Soul

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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