"Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it."

-- David J. Skorton

#Thoughtful Quotes #Gains Quotes #Provocative Quotes

“Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.”

Source : Interview for Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, December 5, 2010.
“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”
“Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?”
“Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.”
“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”
“For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended.”
“The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.”
“Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.”

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