"Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution."

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Source : "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford". The Dartmouth, September 30, 2005.

Jon Appleton

#Intellectual Quotes #Kind Quotes #Very Sad Quotes

“My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.”

Source : "What keeps Roddy rooted" by Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2001.
“A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

Source : "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
“If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.”
“Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
“Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.”
“Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.”
“My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.”

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