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| #5031 | | Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
-- Charles Schulz
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| #5032 | | Trying to get an education here is like trying to get a drink from a fire hose.
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| #5033 | | Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little
in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates.
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| #5034 | | University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- C. P. Snow
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| #5035 | | Walt: Dad, what's gradual school?
Garp: Gradual school?
Walt: Yeah. Mom says her work's more fun now that she's teaching
gradual school.
Garp: Oh. Well, gradual school is someplace you go and gradually
find out that you don't want to go to school anymore.
-- The World According To Garp
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| #5036 | | "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
-- Vroomfondel
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| #5037 | | We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary
to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know.
Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
to crave knowledge.
-- George Will
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| #5038 | | We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable
things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend
and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.
-- Waldo D.R. Dobbs
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| #5039 | | "We're running out of adjectives to describe our situation. We
had crisis, then we went into chaos, and now what do we call this?" said
Nicaraguan economist Francisco Mayorga, who holds a doctorate from Yale.
-- The Washington Post, February, 1988
The New Yorker's comment:
At Harvard they'd call it a noun.
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| #5040 | | What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a
free meandering brook.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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