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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 quotes (British poet, 1878-1967)
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“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”
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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.”
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“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”
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“The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.”
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“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
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“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”
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“In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools”
Doris Lessing quotes (Persian born British Novelist and short-story Writer b.1919)
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“The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed”
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