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University Teacher Inspirational Quotes (46446)

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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
Chinua Achebe
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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.
Jeffrey Lagarias
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Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
Ralph Nader
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What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
David Foster Wallace
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Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
Uta Barth
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I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.
Uta Barth
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I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?
Uta Barth
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I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
Uta Barth
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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
Edith Stein
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The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
Uwe Reinhardt
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Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Uwe Reinhardt
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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Stanley Fish
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
Tony Campolo
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I don't regret setting bombs.
Bill Ayers
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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
Milan Kundera
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
Michael Ondaatje
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To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
V. S. Pritchett
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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
V. S. Pritchett
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I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
V. S. Pritchett
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Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
V. S. Pritchett
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