"It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here."

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Ruth Simmons

#Pain Quotes #Priorities Quotes #Students Quotes

“Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”

Source : "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 278, 1947.
“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
“equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.”
“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim”
“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”
“The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.”
“You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.”
“Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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