Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cass Sunstein

In a very few cases the majority has referred to foreign decisions in the same way it might refer to a treatise or an academic article. Our sovereignty is not at risk.

I'm not buying that crap. People overreact both ways. Notre Dame is down they'll never be back. Their academic standards are too high. You see them get buried faster than anybody else, and people are jumping on the bandwagon faster than everybody else.

I liked a lot of the girls there and went to some of the classes with them. They showed me that there was a lot of academic support there as well as good athletic programs.

I hope we can aid hurting peoples around us, ... May God bless you as study and learn and serve this new academic year.

Miranda Hart

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

The Microsoft Research division might get between $150 and $200 million, which is still pretty significant for a pure research group that isn't judged, for example, on how many products they produce. They are judged very much like an academic research organization.

The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.

David Jones

The feeling from Greenspan's point of view is that you don't want a pure academic for this post because that person may not have enough political savvy and enough market sense.

The Feminine Mystique' was huge in terms of its national and international impact on society. It was like a spark on tinder and helped light the fire of the women's movement. It had solid academic foundations even though she wasn't an academic. It was the right book at the right time.

Newt Gingrich

The Cornerstone Community School provides hope and academic excellence to students in our area ... Newt and I are pleased to contribute to this effort.

The coaching staff is thrilled with the addition of these 10 young men for the fall of 2006. They are quality individuals who will maintain the integrity and academic excellence we have built within The Ohio State University's men's lacrosse program. They all bring a desire to compete for another conference championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament.

Matt Martin

The club has worked with and supported Diana through significant life obstacles. As a developing learner, staff has coached Diana through her most difficult subjects, teaching her to create and meet her academic goals.

Heather Williams

The challenge that GW has and every major university has is that you have a student body that is very diverse and coming with very individual needs and different expectations, ... Their link is more tied to the academic discipline.

The concern is that the government is using the ideological exclusion provision and other immigration laws to manipulate and censor political and academic debate inside the United States.

an attempt to intimidate the American academic community, and especially people of Chinese descent, who have the greatest knowledge of China and the greatest contact with China.

The hype surrounding the SA needs to be improved. People need to know that it's not just dealing with academic issues, because that's what it often gets pegged to. It's also dealing with a variety of student life issues that are really important to not only people who are active in the colleges but also to the people who aren't involved.

Barry Alvarez

The guys are smart enough to know that this was a mismatch. These guys lost seven players (to academic suspensions) last week. They're very thin.

Barry Alvarez

The guys are smart enough to know that this was a mismatch, ... These guys lost seven players (to academic suspensions) last week. They're very thin.

The group is an affirmation that our program is moving in the right direction. It's all part of building a program. It's also a reflection of the NCAA rules that make it more difficult for junior college players to come in and be immediately eligible. We're very pleased with their commitment to academic success and their position flexibility.

The idea that technology can make significant differences and positive benefits in individual lives is something that really captures people's attention. We're now in a position, in collaboration with the academic research community, to do creative things and have such an impact.

Henry Giroux

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

Dave Douglas

The UNC Law School has a long tradition of a commitment to both academic excellence and public service, which I find very appealing. Although I'm very happy teaching at William & Mary, I'm also pleased to be a candidate in the UNC search.

Peter Davison

And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life because most poets have to be in academic life, there aren't so many other ways to survive.

A lot has changed over the past six months. Clearly, her playing schedule has not made her academics suffer in any form.

The child is learning academic skills while helping others.

The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go back to my academic roots. The battle with him was over.

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

The culture is changing in college sports today, and the emphasis on students is coming back into play. That's the goal of academic reform. The goal is not to unnecessarily take scholarships away from teams.

This is a great milestone for our district. When we look at each academic area, we can see improvements and the successes of students in each content area.

Michael McClure

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Bob Hill

It's not a Division I school. It's a good school, but they should really think about going to Division III and putting academics first if they're not going to put any money in sports.

Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.

Ben Bernanke

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.