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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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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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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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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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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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"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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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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"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."
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"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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"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."
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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
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"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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