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• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Math, College

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Empathy

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• The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

  Agnes Repplier

  Knowledge, Knowing, Hands

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

  Edwin Newman

  People, Sides, Scientist

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Football, Athlete, Player

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

  Robert P. George

  Atheist, Memories, Book

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• Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

  James E. Faust

  Cheating, School, Self

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• Character comes before scholarship.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Character

  Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

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• I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

  Paul Theroux

  Mysterious, Century, Enjoyed

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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  Indra Nooyi

  America, Yale, Boston

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• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Volleyball, School, Player

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

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• It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

  Rick Perry

  Education, School, Giving

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• In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

  Israel Shenker

  Jewish Tradition, Stuff, Devotion

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

  William C. Davis

  Hero, Writing, Blood

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• The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in genetics. But this book is not simply another story of the ideological uses to which science may be put. Nadia Abu El-Haj has provided the reader with a very detailed analysis of the historical entanglement between science and politics. Her study should be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of science-and also for those dealing with Middle Eastern nationalisms. This is a work of outstanding value for scholarship.

  Talal Asad

  Book, Reading, Race

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• The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

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• I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Doors, Indulge In

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• I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Character, Gossip

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

  Uzo Aduba

  Art, School, Boston

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• We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Class, World

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• Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

  Richard Levins

  Suffering, Indifferent, Immoral

  Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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• The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

  David Plotz

  Christian, Jesus, Mistake

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

  Marvin Olasky

  Jobs, Feminist, Athletic

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