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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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The place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Place Book These Knowledge
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I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

London Mary's East Juggle
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

Done Proud Think Badly
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

After Become Books Collection
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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.

Arts Athletic Because Boston
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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Alive Argue Became Clause
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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Big Big Difference Difference Entertainment
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I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

About Awful Brown Bullied
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Buy Came Challenge Did
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Care Wins Game Man
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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My university work was not central to my education.

University Work Central Education
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

Example Someone Made University
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I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

Biochemistry Creative Decided Duke
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There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Administrators Among Bad Because
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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

After Awful Because Candy
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

All My Work Care Draw Experience
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

The reason University politics Small
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Economics Level Long Many
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

About Being Deciding DNA
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I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A lawyer Journalist University
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Africa Any Child College
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The cardinal principle upon which our University is founded is to impart knowledge and learning to men and women of all races without any distinction on the grounds of race, religious, or political beliefs.

Cardinal principle University Founded Distinction
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Slow down and enjoy your time at the university. If you are not sure about something, ask questions. When in difficulty, don’t give up.

Slow down Your time University Ask questions
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If you want to run a university, you must be selfless and willing to serve.

To run University Selfless Willing
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If proprietors would learn from me, those who want to start up a university must be prepared to be personally involved with how things are run in the university.

Proprietors Learn Start up University
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

My mother University My father Very educated
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

In university Greater part The law Tolerate fools
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Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Unity Mind Natural love Co-operation
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No student attending a publicly funded college/university in America should ever have to go into debt to receive an education.

No student Publicly funded College Into debt
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