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Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Age
  • Community
  • College

• Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Blearily

• I had no interest in high school besides art.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Life is

• Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mars
  • Rocket
  • Orbit

• I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Believe
  • Program
  • Jeopardy

• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• They have me in the tabloids all the time without my makeup. My friends always show me. But I don't care. Everybody saw me on 'American Idol' with no makeup so you know what you're getting!

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • American

• I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Afraid

• People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Lost
  • Reading

• Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Work
  • Political
  • Government

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Prejudice
  • Guessing

• In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

  

  Will Durant
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Mythology

• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  

  Adam Parfrey
  • Planet
  • Outcome
  • Regime

• Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Sing
  • Believed

• Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.

  

  Xavi
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Memories

• Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

  

  Gaddis Smith
  • Atmosphere
  • University
  • Influenced