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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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"...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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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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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state." »Joseph Goebbels
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"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." »George F. Gilder
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one." »Thomas Paine
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state "What does it matter to me?" the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state What does it matter to me the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes." »Albert Einstein
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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." »Charlotte Bronte
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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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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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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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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"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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"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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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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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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"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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"We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God." »Edward Irving Koch
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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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"It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the state." »Roger B. Taney
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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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"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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""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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