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"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."
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"Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again."
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"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
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"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."
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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."
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"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper."
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"If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas."
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"In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character."
Politics

"In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America."
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"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them."
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"I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
Government
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