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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

~Derek Bok

Topics: American Attribute Colleges Concentrate Critics Does Education Evidence Except Fact Failings In Fact Major Neglect Part Perhaps Professors Research Support Teaching Tendency Thesis Undergraduate Universities

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I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Because Choosing Disparity Diversity Experience Fact Importantly Know Limited Long Matter Measure Nearly Need Regard Scores Students Test Test Scores Things Though Useful Very

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I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Always Am Any Conscious Fact Part Permanently Privileged Profession Sense Unemployed Working I Am

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What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Fact Figure Her Heroic Immensity Liberty Manly Moving Scale Soft Something Statue Statue Of Liberty Tender Think Woman I Think

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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Because Caribbean Definitely Delight Direction Fact Food Landscape Language Make May Shape Things

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Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Because Dead Existed Fact Hughes More Myth Ok Poetry Proven Real Something Soon Ted Than Then Very

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We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.

~Desiree Rogers

Topics: Beautiful Chicago Down Experience Fact Just Make Rest Triple Want

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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Fact In Fact Many People Quite Shy Surprised Would

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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Able Am Being Certainly Fact Know Many People Prayers So Many People Survive To Survive Upheld Were Would I Am

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People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Act Affordable Affordable Care Act Anymore Bankrupt Before Care Country Early Early Years Expanding Expense Fact Federal Federal Government Go Going Government Health Health Care Here Illness In Fact Issue Most Need People Picked Serious Those Up Which Who Years

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