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Letter "U" » university
«There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
entering, professor, relative, student, the University, university
«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.»
«The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.»
Author: Lisa Birnbach
| Keywords:
campus, campuses, lines, Miami, tan, tanned, tanner, tanning, the University, university
«The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
University
| Keywords:
corruption, cruelties, delicate, mixed, splendid, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Eternal, the University, university
«The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.»
«To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
breech, breeches, element, graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, in some way, pair, put on, regular, saved, soundly, unchanged, university, wasted
«The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| About:
University
| Keywords:
abilities, incapability, including, the University, university
«The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.»
«The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
applied, hired, manure, pig, researcher, researchers, sorry for, the University, university
«The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Art of, exquisite, idleness, Teach, university
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