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«These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.»
«Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.»
«We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.»
«The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education»
«The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.»
«Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study»
«The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.»
«Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach»

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