"I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'"

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Source : "Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

Peter Higgs

#Exercise Quotes #Assessment Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Hearts are united when they ache and break together.”
“The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.”
“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”
“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Nov 27, 2012
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
“One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.”
“In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?”

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