"We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric."

-- Jerry Rubin

#Risk Quotes #Importance Quotes #Rhetoric Quotes

“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.”
“What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.”
“Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.”
“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.”
“Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.”
“In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.”
“The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.”
“If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.”

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