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I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: About Academic Certain Ever Everything Find Gets Joe Just Out Passionate Read Suddenly Wants Who Why Writers Written Wrote

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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Academic Consider Disagree Free Free Speech Freedom Ideas Mean Might Right Speech Which You

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If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Academic Conservative Defend Equally Freedom Ideas Liberal Ought Pluralism Speakers Used Valid Views

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As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

~Brad Sherman

Topics: About Academic Academically Achievement Athletic Bestow Champions Foster Honor Just Meeting Must Need Our President Recognize Reward Should States Strive Talk Those United United States Who

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I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About Academic Checked Era Had Library Naive Only Out Public Public Library Publishing Topic Volume Writing Wwii

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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Academic Animals Cornered Defend Departments Far Far Less Justification Less Often Passion Territory Though Too

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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Academic Act Archives Aware Carnegie Dusty Fact Find Foundation Frequently Institutions Occasionally People Pick Report Reports Segment Up Way Well

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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

~Caitlin Moran

Topics: Academic Feminism Right Subject Think Wrong You

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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

~Cameron Russell

Topics: Academic Background Becoming Feminist Model Very Which

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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Academic After Art Audience Beauty Decade Emotion Meaning Pleasure Reign Restoration Terror Value Vandalism Will 1990S

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