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H. L. Mencken Quote: 'Let's not burn the universities yet. ...'

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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
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If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.
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Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.


Ray Bradbury
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.


Jim Harrison
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Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.
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Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
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Time is the fire in which we burn.


Gene Roddenberry
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
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Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.


Tom Barrett
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It's better to burn out, than to fade away.


Neil Young
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.


Mel Brooks
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.


Harold W. Dodds
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