"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

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Source : Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Safe Haven Quotes #Reality Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.”
“Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.”
“A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.”
“Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.”
“In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.”
“Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.”
“In the 27 years I've been doing this I never thought I'd find a better wrestler than me, but I found him. Daniel Bryan.”
“The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.”

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