"Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself."

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Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

Edward H. Levi

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“I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.”
“The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.”
“I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.”
“I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”
“Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.”
“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.”

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