"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."

-- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#Opportunity Quotes #Yale Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.”

Source : Roland Lazenby (2010). “Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon”, p.283, ESPN
“Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”
“In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.”
“School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.”
“As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.”
“In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.”
“Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.”

Source : Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.102, Penguin
“Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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