Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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I've got a lot of miles on my legs.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.
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No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.
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In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.
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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
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I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.
