"S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant."

-- Paul E. Gray

#Perspective Quotes #Insightful Quotes #Culture Quotes

“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”
“Whenever possible print a woman's age.”

Source : 1957 Quoted in Francis Williams Dangerous Estate.
“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010
“Only unfulfilled love can be romantic”
“All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine”
“The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking”
“People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.”
“National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.”

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