University Quotes - Page 21

• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Regret, School, Levels

  Interview with Adam Treger, www.tregernomics.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Latin, Law, Groups

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

  Dick Gregory

  Zoos, Ghetto, Animal

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mean, Sasquatch, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

  Jay Mohr

  Order, Language, Construction

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  School, Thinking, Done

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Responsibility, Essentials, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

  Hans Rosling

  Training, World, Following

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Two, Library, Archives

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Tanks, Investing

  Source: genius.com

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• There was so much fake news in Wisconsin, that Scott Walker stuff, they had fake polls. The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make Walker - really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Perfect, Fake, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Wings, Cynical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Morning, Jobs, Stanford University

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.

  Wangari Maathai

  Country, Government, Research

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.

  Wangari Maathai

  Gmos, Government, Trying

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

  Charles Koch

  Essence, Inquiry, Loses

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.'" So we have "'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement'".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Simple, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.

  Joaquin Castro

  Strong, School, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.

  David E. Cooper

  Reflection, Offending, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn't been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn't thrown stones at.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Party, Believe, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Historically black colleges and universities are incredibly important institutions woven into the fabric of America. They have played such an important role in achieving progress for African Americans and in our nation's march for justice.

  Donald Trump

  College, America, Justice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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