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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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"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of chicago." »Dan Quayle
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"Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the chicago stockyard." »H. L. Mencken
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"Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in chicago in January, only more intelligent." »Dave Barry
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"The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation." »Jean Nathan Miller
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"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does." »Henri Poincare
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"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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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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"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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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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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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"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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"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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"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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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see." »John Masefield
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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