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Letter "P" » professors
«Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.»
«Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
| Keywords:
contemplated, dominant, doubted, profess, professes, professing, professors, sincerity
«It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant. [About elvish language]»
«Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.»
«A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
academe, American culture, American Life, fantasies, gap, humanities, impact, leftist, mass media, professors, public policy, The Gap
«I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.»
Author: James Joyce
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arguing, centuries, enigma, enigmas, immortality, insured, insures, insuring, professors, put in, puzzles
«Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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Culture
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manufacture, professors, wield, wielded, wields
«PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.»
«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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after all, books, book of knowledge, collection, collections, days, In books, manner, professors, These Days, The Professor, the true, university
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school
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