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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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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."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
Life
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
Deception
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
People
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