Academia Quotes
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I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.
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The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
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The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.
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I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.
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I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.
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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: why would anyone want their children to be the brightest? Academia is a lonely world.
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We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.
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Academia is a graveyard of poets.
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
