"The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars."

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Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

Ernest L. Boyer

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“I have this strength that comes from knowledge.”
“Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.”
“Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.”
“I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.”
“Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trapâ€”I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and youâ€”because you know how to perform themâ€”have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choiceâ€”and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.”
“You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.”

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