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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."
Civilization

"The truth is more important than the facts."
Truth

"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
Quality

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
Character

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
Government

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
Architecture

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
Life

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
Money
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