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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. -- John Lydon
Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men. -- Shirin Ebadi
In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. -- Bill Bryson
Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce. -- Shirin Ebadi
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. -- Constance Baker Motley
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. -- Noam Chomsky
I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama. -- Anna Popplewell
Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it. -- Michael N. Castle
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. -- Jerry Costello
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. -- John Ciardi
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. -- James Cronin
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. -- Oriana Fallaci
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students. -- Ruth J. Simmons
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper. -- Tabitha Soren
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. -- Milton Friedman
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. -- Hu Shih
I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university. -- Earl Campbell
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. -- Daniel Nathans
I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes. -- Prince William
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential. -- Amy Jo Martin
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. -- Anant Agarwal
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. -- Jack Ma
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The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students. -- Clark Kerr
I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent. -- Godfrey
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people. -- Michael Dukakis
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor. -- Wolfgang Paul
I believe that it's fine if [the] university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data. -- Annalee Newitz
Make ourselves attractive to students?" said the Archchancellor. "Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into. -- Terry Pratchett
We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school." -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy. -- Harry J. Anslinger
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. -- Ad Reinhardt
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. -- Allan Bloom
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. -- George Bernard Shaw
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England. -- John Maynard Keynes
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State. -- Michael N. Castle
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices. -- Noam Chomsky

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