"That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists."

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Henry Rosovsky

#Meaningful Quotes #Eight Quotes #Two Quotes

“Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.”
“The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.”
“In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (1912). “Landmarks in French Literature”
“It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.”

Source : Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.
“Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.”
“I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], â€˜There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.â€™ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current systemâ€¦ Sustainable business asks, â€˜How would nature do this?â€™”
“I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.”

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