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Rene Descartes


In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Barnaby C. Keeney


At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Andrew Carnegie


The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Henry Stimson


The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Ronald Reagan


As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.

Aristotle


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women


Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:07:05 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...

Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:23 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

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