"I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting."

-- Nicholas Lemann

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“The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.”
“I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.”

Source : "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.”
“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.”
“India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“The adornment of the body is a human need.”
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”

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