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The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific. -- Robert Greene
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. -- George McGovern
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. -- Carroll Quigley
For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg "the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America. -- Jon Meacham
The best university is the university of life. -- Henrique Capriles Radonski
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. -- Amartya Sen
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. -- Antonio Tabucchi
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. -- Pat Conroy
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. -- Robert Lacey
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. -- Constance Baker Motley
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything. -- William Shatner
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life. -- Carolina Herrera
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary. -- Agyness Deyn
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. -- Julia Stiles
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. -- Albert Claude
You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on. -- Magnus Magnusson
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time. -- Stephen Merchant
My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life. -- Jess Glynne
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. -- James E. Rogers
I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the workforce, when they basically no longer meet anyone. Life becomes dull. So as a result people get married to have a personal life. I could elaborate but I think everyone understands. -- Michel Houellebecq
In the university of life, failure births experience -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out. -- Peter Cook
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. -- David Nicholls
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan, -- Jim Harbaugh
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. -- Louisa May Alcott
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. -- Horatio Bottomley
Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life. -- Steven J Lawson
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university. -- Robert Pinsky
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It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. -- Vincent Massey
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn -- T. D. Jakes
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. -- Maria Montessori
There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
In university, we are given a taught a lesson then given a test. Whereas in life, we are given a test that teaches us a lesson. #UniversityOfLife -- Habeeb Akande
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new. -- Richard Branson
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. -- Ian Hislop
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it. -- Louis Tomlinson
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life. -- Henri Nouwen

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