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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

~A. Bartlett Giamatti

Topics: Abroad Also Amateur Babe Babe Ruth Baseball Both Building Colleges Fans Game Home League Leagues Levels Little Little League Obligation Our Own Pool Ruth Self-Interest Spread Talent Up Where

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: American Babe Books Breathed Colleges Courts Enforced Every Every American Halls Her Justice Lap Laws Legislative Mother Preached Pulpit Reverence Schools Spelling Taught Written

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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

~Abraham Robinson

Topics: Allocation Appointments Colleges Conclude Course Cruz Disciplines Funds Organization Programs Promotions Research Santa Should Simultaneously Units Voice Whose Would

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When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

~Adam Sandler

Topics: After Always Colleges Feels Girl Good Like Me Show Shows Stand-Up Talk Talking Them Will

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I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

~Adam West

Topics: Colleges Different Five Know Looking Maverick Quite

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When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Classmates Colleges Feel Good Had High High School Like Look Order Pile Private School Tutors Use

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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

~Alistair Cooke

Topics: Assistants Become Colleges Doomsday Expert Lab Like Look Looked More Second Second World War Small Soldiers Than War Warriors World World War

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State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

~Arne Duncan

Topics: Answer Colleges Cut Cuts Education Funding Generate Governments Higher Higher Education Hikes Leaders Less Lost Make Make Up Recession Revenue State State Governments Struggle Tend Tuition Turn Up

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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Business Colleges Dollars Education Few Fits Life Many Million Million Dollars Money More Must Our Spend Spent Than University Well Year

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Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

~August Wilson

Topics: Active Around Away Black Colleges Did Even Far Far Away He Invited Jackson Lot Mississippi Ohio Organizations Pittsburgh Plays Rather Scarce Scripts Student Stuff Time Were Writing

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