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"I won't say there aren't any harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the harvard I know." »Derek Bethune
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." »Edgar R. Fiedler
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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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"Four years was enough of harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself." »John Updike
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Studying literature at harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic." »Roy Blount Jr.
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"harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish." »Manley E. Rogers
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"Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a harvard graduation.)" »Muhammad Ali
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"If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business' I might think that was a good idea." »William John Bennett
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"I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the harvard Medical School." »Frank Sinatra
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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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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the university of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." »Doris Lessing
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." »Flannery O'Connor
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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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." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education." »George Bernard Shaw
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""I, on the other hand, have a degree from the university of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." »Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
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"It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee
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