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• Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

  Simone Veil

  Education, Culture, Instruments

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind". Book by Simone Veil, part 2: Uprootedness, chapter 1: Uprootedness in the Towns, 2002.

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• Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Eldon Ladd (1996). “The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

  Brené Brown

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Friendship, Technology, Creating

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• The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

  Julian Bond

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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• Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hate, America, Marxist

  "Feminist Mischief on College Campuses". Phyllis Schlafly, "Phyllis Schlafly Report", Volume 38, No. 9, eagleforum.org. April 2005.

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• Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014

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• My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

  Michelle Obama

  White, Trying, Matter

  "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community". Senior thesis, Princeton University, p. 14-15, 1985.

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• We are not shooting enough professors.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Shooting, Enough

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• Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Taken, Mean

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• If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

  J. K. Rowling

  Window, Break, Professor Mcgonagall

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• Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Education, Literature, Cold

  Nobel Prize address, Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1930

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• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

  Hans Asperger

  Funny, Success, Art

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• Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

  Coco Chanel

  Strong Women, Opinion, Wonderful

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• In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

  Noam Chomsky

  4th Of July, America, Mechanic

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

  Julie Burchill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?". www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Dad, Pastor

  "Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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