"A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying."

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Source : Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.

James Bryant Conant

#Study Quotes #Harvard Quotes

“My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers, but sex is like a snake, it slithers through everything.”
“I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.”

Source : "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.
“Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.”
“I live like a crazy old pack rat.”
“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
“If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.”

Source : Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”
“We've done a lot of work with our government businesses to ensure that we can get reasonable returns but at the same time that they can provide the services that they do provide to Tasmanians at the most efficient cost.”
“If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.”

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