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Professor Inspirational Quotes (15580)

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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
Anne Carson
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Anne Carson
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
Anne Carson
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Faith ever says, If Thou wilt, not If Thou canst.
Martin Luther
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President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.
Vali Nasr
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What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.
Vali Nasr
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault
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Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
Robert Todd Carroll
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A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Napoleon Hill
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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer
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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Hal Abelson
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Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Assia Djebar
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
Vernon L. Smith
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
Vernon L. Smith
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Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
Vernon L. Smith
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I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
Vernon L. Smith
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