"The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man."

-- George Horace Lorimer

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“Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.”
“I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.”
“We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.”
“Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.”
“You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.”
“My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.”
“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
“Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.”

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