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"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
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"I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start."

"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."

"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."

"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"

"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."

"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day."

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."


"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."


"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."


"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."


"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."


"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."


"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."


"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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