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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein
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""It seems to be a universal law; to the degree you give up your attachment to the material world, to the same degree you are filled with the joys of spirit."" »Harry Kovair
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"The integrity of states is ruled by the socioeconomic well-being theory. The degree of the stability of any social system is proportional to the degree of its economic growth and vice versa. Stated differently, the risk to national integrity increases proportionally to the country's economic decline." »Med Jones
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"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus
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"in regards to academic pursuits..."the short-term stress is worth a lifetime of success!"" »Jemille Smith
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"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." »George Will
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"The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered." »Felix Adler
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"One forgives to the degree that one loves." »La Rochefoucauld
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"It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears." »Rod Serling
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"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree." »Plato
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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." »Bob Dylan
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"The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego." »Albert Einstein
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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the University of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." »Bertrand Russell
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"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." »Peter McWilliams
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"I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide" »John Ryman
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." »Stendhal
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"In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge." »William Baker
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"Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." »Millard Fuller
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"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture." »Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating." »Harold Rosenberg
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"The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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