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• Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Toys, Strange

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

  Joan Didion

  Princess, Self, Rose

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• And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

  Robert James Waller

  Knowledge, Gypsy, Remember

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Ignorance, Race

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• I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

  Huston Smith

  Eight, Years, Profound

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Religious scholar Huston Smith talks about Christianity and why religion matters today" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. September 19, 2005.

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• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

  Max Weber

  Writing, Achievement, Pieces

  Max Weber, David S. Owen (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religious, Science, Men

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

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• A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, People

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

  Robert Burchfield

  Order, Language, Periods

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• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  Xunzi

  Successful, Men, Cautious

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.179, Stanford University Press

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• If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Philosophy, Would Be, Way

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• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Topics, Trouble, Clear

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• Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Impact, Environment, Academic

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• I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

  Peter Jennings

  Reporters

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• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  Mary Douglas

  Steps, Next, Arguing

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• Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

  William C. Kirby

  Jobs, Leader, Political

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

  Spencer Abraham

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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

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• Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

  Frederic Farrar

  School, Philosopher, Various

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “Seekers After God”, p.32

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• Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Mom, Biblical, Self

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Self, Organization

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.428, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Reality, Worry

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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