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As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
Simon Newcomb
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Astronomer
Navy
Peculiar
Professors
Real
Sensual
Account
Anomaly
Apparent
Corps
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In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?
Steven Crowder
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Accountability
Becoming
Professors
Complex
Heavier
Increasingly
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
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Novelist
Arguing
Busy
Immortality
Professors
Way
Writing
Will
Only
Keep Will Way
Meant
Centuries
Over
Put
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Preparing America's student loan crippled grads to enter a hopeless and crowded job market is no easy task, which is why we should show more love to our nation's professors.
Sean Evans
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Crippled
Crowded
Hopeless
Loan
Preparing
Professors
Task
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
Camryn Manheim
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Actress
College
Degrees
Fabulous
Parent
Professors
Degree
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I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
Justin Cronin
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Author
Generous
Houston
Long
Professors
Rice
Sequels
University
Work Me Long
English
Work Long Me
Leash
Letting
Passage
Professor
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
Carlos Slim
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Business Person
Technology
Courses
Digital
Internet
Professors
University
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Universities
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We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
Daniel Greenberg
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Democratic
Example
Philosophy
Professors
Expose
Identified
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One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."
John Shelby Spong
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Author
Mean
Professors
Said
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I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.
Mircea Monroe
/
Actress
Lying
Michigan
Professors
Sneak
Near
Parties
Studying
Supposedly
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I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.
Denis Mcdonough
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Catholic
Indebted
Minnesota
Professors
Teachers
Sisters
Elementary
Joseph
Shaped
Monks
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Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.
Andrew Yang
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Graduate Students
Professors
Classes
Commonly
Graduate
Interact
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With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.
Stanislaw Ulam
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Mathematician
Hundred
Pairs
Professors
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When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'
Bruce Nordstrom
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Professors
Five-Year
Gee
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I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
Joe Jamail
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Answers
Professors
Interested
Develop
Realized
Second
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
Amy Gerstler
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Poet
Etc
Humans
Intrigued
Math
Professors
Academics
Board
Chefs
Literary
Folk
Ideally
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The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Lawyer
College Students
Courses
Professors
Comments
Complaint
Frequent
Leftist
Subject
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I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.
Mary J. Miller
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Has Beens
I've Learned
Professors
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Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Embarrassed
Parades
Philosopher
Professors
Craig
William
Lane
None
Whom
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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.
J. K. Rowling
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Novelist
Might
Professors
Research
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In the jargon of American vaudeville, Professors Frisch and Tinbergen are a 'hard act to follow.' But then, all my life, I have been following such great scholars and policy advisors as these.
Paul Samuelson
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Economist
Following
Jargon
Professors
Vaudeville
Life Great My Life
Advisor
All My Life
Scholars
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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Author
Education
College
Educated
Ignorance
Illiteracy
Intelligent
Mother
Professors
Said
School
Understanding
More
Go
Always
Were
Must
Intolerant
Some
Some People
Than
Unable
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A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
Michael Pollan
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Author
Animal
Influential
Moral
Movement
Our Time
Professors
Rights
Struggle
Activists
Animals
Time Great Law
Increasingly
Philosophers
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The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.
Charlie Sykes
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Destroyed
Higher Education
Professors
Steadily
Systematically
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I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.
Rainbow Rowell
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Author
Pipers
Professors
Wonder
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Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
Stanley B. Prusiner
/
Researcher
Opportunity
Architecture
Courses
Philosophy
Professors
Russian History
Besides
Extraordinarily
Numerous
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
Leo Varadkar
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Arguing
Consultants
Criteria
Deviation
Professors
Clinical
Detail
Standard
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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
Derek Bok
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Lawyer
Critical
Critical Thinking
Effort
Passive
Practice
Professors
Thinking
Questions
Apply
Audiences
Develop
Efforts
Falter
Instead
Learned
Lecture
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The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in his or her field. Some of Harvard's professors are even famous.
Andrew Yang
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Harvard
Professors
Scholar
Smarter
Your Child
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Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph Lauren, who helped popularize them among college professors and preppy men.
Roger Stone
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Political Consultant
Lauren
Miles
Preppy
Professors
Trousers
Davis
Heights
Jack
Province
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
Marilyn Nelson
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Poet
Graduate School
Hiatus
Professors
Publishers
Graduate
Manuscript
Poems
Prepare
Send
Suggested
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The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
Don Tapscott
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Author
Courses
Danger
Fields
Losing
Monopoly
Online
Professors
Reason
University
Visible
Good Reason
Respective
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We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
Daniel Kahneman
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Psychologist
Association
Cat
Dog
Harvard
Mind
Professors
Tables
Cats
Dogs
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It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.
Louis Menand
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Writer
Educated
People
Professors
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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
George Bernard Shaw
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Playwright
Girl
Flower
Professors
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I'm extremely excited about returning to my alma mater, working with my amazing professors and being part of Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance once again. I believe the program to be the absolute best in the nation!
Frankie Grande
/
Professors
Absolute
Returning
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My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do in your imagination. And in my imagination, the characters always looked like me.
Shonda Rhimes
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Screenwriter
Professors
Reading Books
Time Imagination Me
Time Reading
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One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.
Astra Taylor
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Filmmaker
Horns
People
Professors
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Class
Entering
Nine
Professors
Race
Sex
African
Included
Joined
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It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
Craig Zadan
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Department
Dramatic
Professors
Concentrate
Quit
Review
Studying
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Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.
Chris Gardner
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Entrepreneur
Business School
Professors
Selling
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I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.
Condoleezza Rice
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Love Is
Professors
States
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I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Composer
Knowledge
Admirable
Exclusive
Forsaken
Professors
Solidity
Taste
Composers
Particularly
Though
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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Louis L'amour
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Author
Available
Ideas
Library
Office
Post Office
Professors
School
Tied
Assume
Post
Reach
Schools
Universities
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In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.
Gerry Schwartz
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Interaction
Learning Experience
Lectures
Professors
Tools
Undergraduate
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
Walter Kirn
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Novelist
Critics
Discussing
Obscurity
Princeton
Professors
Ran
Understood
Eighties
Philosophers
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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
Steven Pinker
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Psychologist
Academic
Boundaries
Fields
Organize
Professors
Subculture
Topics
World
Apt
Coherent
Ignores
Increasingly
Topic
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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
John Clute
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Author
Genre
Predictable
Professors
Routine
Science Fiction
Stigma
Escaped
Labeled
Novels
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
Rachael Harris
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Actress
Grateful
Professors
Door
Foot
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
George Washington
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1St U.s. President
Christianity
Direct
Exception
Heaven
Liable
Professors
Worship
Bigot
Easiest
Mode
Seem
Shall
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