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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon
2.
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.
C. Wright Mills
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First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
Salvador Allende
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Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
Leonard Bernstein
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Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
Leonard Bernstein
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I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
David Irving
7.
Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift
Les Back
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz
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Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
Robert Sternberg
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Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
Myron Tribus
12.
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
Sarah Waters
13.
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.
Nevill Drury
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The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
Julian Barnes
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I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
Anthony Hopkins
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The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
18.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars
19.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
Albert Ellis
20.
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
Hans Arp
21.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
22.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt
23.
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
Dan Farmer
24.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
Clifford Geertz
25.
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
Dennis Prager
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I was always more of an academic than a jock.
Edwin Moses
27.
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.
Sasha Cohen
28.
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
John Hewson
29.
There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'
Larry Cuban
30.
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
Peter S. Prescott
31.
I have not had any serious non-academic job.
Amartya Sen
32.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp
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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
Juan Cole
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
36.
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Michelle Richmond
37.
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.
Stanley Fish
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
Elbert Hubbard
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
Naveen Andrews
42.
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
Donald Knuth
43.
I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
Andrea Savage
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
Zadie Smith
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I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
Alan Sugar
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Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
Noel Annan, Baron Annan
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
Benedict Cumberbatch
48.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
Tatiana Maslany
49.
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
William McKeen
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The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Michael Crichton