"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

-- Simon Newcomb

#Graduation Quotes #School Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.”
“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”
“I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything.”
“Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.”
“I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.”
“Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.”
“Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”
“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.”

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