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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."

"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."

"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."

"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."

"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."

"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."

"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
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