"O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence."

-- Robin Winks

#Moving Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Reality Quotes

“The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.”

Source : "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.
“The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree”
“The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.”
“I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer.”
“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”
“Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.”
“Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.”

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