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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand
Creative
Writing
Programs
Something
Poetry
Departments
Happens
English
Creative Writing
Universities
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions - and that is especially true for universities.
Mark Walport
Democracy
Political
Whatever
Would
Voices
Never
True
Like
Opinions
Israel
Want
Universities
In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.
Mary Beard
Life
Country
Real Life
Others
Excellent
Students
Highly
Like
Real
Cambridge
Intelligent
Quite
Oxford
Ordinary
Full
Teachers
Many
Hard-Working
Two
Universities
I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.
Matt Mickiewicz
Work
Me
Age
People
Management
Young
Think
Web
Never
Developing
Mainly
Like
Industry
Because
Felt
Lecturing
Conferences
Stopped
Wanting
Really
Speaking
Universities
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle
Welcome
Learning
Black
Backward
Colleges
Network
Segregation
Higher
Simply
Days
Schools
Policy
Traditional
Were
Historical
American
African
African Americans
Grew
Place
Many
Universities
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Michelle Obama
Work
Education
Hard Work
Me
Financial
Opportunity
College
Parents
Country
Thanks
Aid
Financial Aid
Neighborhood
Plenty
Neither
Some
Finest
Never
Had
Attend
Simply
Policy
Issue
Been
Lot
Up
Personal
Where
Anyone
Grew
Hard
Hardly
Universities
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Muhammad Yunus
Suffering
People
Country
Situation
Tool
Severe
Hunger
Kind
Had
Economist
Box
Felt
Were
Very
Fix
Famine
Dying
While
Teaching
Helpless
Universities
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam Chomsky
You
People
Management
Control
Elsewhere
Kind
Administrative
More
Economic
Layer
True
Force
Industry
Does
Domination
Than
Same
After
Useful
Even
Waste
Universities
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.
Norm Coleman
Welcome
World
Our
Top
High
Colleges
High Schools
Students
Scholars
Economy
Attracting
Schools
Scientific
Continuing
America
Interest
International
Strategic
Helps
Keep
Competitive
Universities
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Oriana Fallaci
Nurture
Anti-Semitism
Find
Shameful
Students
Sponsor
Europe
Palestinian
Nearly
Universities
Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
Pallam Raju
Focus
Lose
Out
Could
Idea
Content
Foreign
Brand
Aspects
Two
Universities
One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.
Paul Rodgers
Sit
Exams
Through
Rock
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Play
Universities
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly
Enemies
Values
Big
Colleges
American
After
Biggest
Media
Universities
There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.
Pierre Moreau
Problem
Mind
Our
No Question
Quebec
Question
Funding
Here
Universities
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
Ram Shriram
Research
Innovations
Out
India
Students
Come
Happening
Produced
Technical
Universities
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
Raymond Kelly
Some
Since
Most
Terrorists
Were
Encountered
Violent
Universities
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
Richard Ayoade
Parents
Other
Brought
Cambridge
Go
Were
Heard
Up
Than
Any
Oxford
England
Universities
University
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
Richard Levin
Education
Game
World
Will
Benefit
Entire
Rise
Entire World
Global
Asia
Zero-Sum
Universities
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
Richard Lugar
Best
World
Opportunity
Lose
Introduce
Admission
Colleges
More
Only
Costs
Students
Foreign
Revenues
Importantly
Overseas
Offer
America
Declining
Us
Much
Needed
Universities
Students who have spent their childhood here in Florida deserve to qualify for the same in-state tuition rate at universities their peers and classmates do.
Rick Scott
Peers
Spent
Rate
Classmates
Students
Qualify
Same
Childhood
Tuition
Who
Deserve
Florida
Here
Universities
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins
Criticism
Distinguished
Must
Only
Schools
Trade
Centers
Justification
Universities
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
Robert Reich
Government
People
Charitable
Take
Make
Private
Contributions
Subsidies
Tax
Form
Them
Deduction
Who
Elite
Universities
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Robert Reich
Benefits
Public Schools
Society
Defined
Visibly
Libraries
Embodied
Mutual
Parks
Hospitals
Recreation
Institutions
Most
Schools
Any
Duties
Public
Transportation
Set
Universities
Museums
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
Robert Reich
Education
Nothing
Student
Budgets
Tame
Universities
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.
Robert Winston
Time
Animals
Research
Hiding
Colleagues
Worthwhile
Instead
Got
Real
Doing
Achievements
Boasting
Should
Use
British
Universities
People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.
Ryan Bethencourt
Science
People
Big
Corporations
Embraced
Classical
Outside
Like
Institutions
Big Corporations
Wanted
Universities
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