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«The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
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Science
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«We need not bid, for cloistered cell, / Our neighbour and our work farewell. / Nor strive to wind ourselves too high / For sinful man beneath the sky.»
Author: John Keble
(Poet, Priest, Theologian)
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bid, cell, cloister, cloistered, farewell, high wind, neighbour, sinful
«The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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buried, clergy, cloister, cloistered, con, cons, discouraged, doctrines, portion, preached, pusillanimity, successfully
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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cloister, cloistered, confounded, confounding, confounds, fair-mindedness, fairmindedness, go together, narrowness, partisan, partisans, patriotism, serviceable, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter»
Author: Margaret Mead
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cloister, cloistered, cloisters, grasp, laboratories, laboratory, subject matter, the University, twelve, university, walls
«There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him.»
«In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, constraint, constraints, obligations, stricter, submits
«I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat»
«To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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cloister, cloistered, diseases, How To Deal, medical, medical school, patients, professional life, professor, pupils, school of medicine, warding, wards
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