Professors Quotes
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.
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The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
