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Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Howard Nemerov

Breaking into a professors office to steal papers and tests is an example of a reason why a student would be expelled.

Fran Cohen

Before (the site was created). . . certain professors might be cozy with the leadership of their department and be horrible professors, so there's no way any incoming student could know about it.

Michael Hussey

PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

Ambrose Bierce

They only talked about microevolution, not macroevolution. If they do this again, they should allow for other people in the field, like professors that do not believe in evolution.

Bryan Cox

Everything was very old; no software, no Internet, and their computer science program consisted of professors teaching Fortran on a blackboard.

Kjell Rye

All the decisions in this indicate that the professors and the university did no do wrong. That what we did, was what we were legally and professionally authorized to do.

Peter Morris

I'm going to go see some of my teammates. Say what's up to the coaches, probably go see some professors.

Dan Orlovsky

I, for one, would not be afraid to invite more foreign professors. It is vital for us to modernize education so that our university graduates are every bit as good as Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni.

Vladislav Surkov

The amount of government funding has not been keeping up with costs of providing higher education, which is why colleges have to cut back on professors' salaries.

John Curtis

Now that it's out there in the public, (professors) have to be accountable to their customers.

Michael Hussey

Actually, that was one of the best choices I ever made. It has been great to play for coach (Bob) Scott and have small classes with very understanding professors.

Marissa Brown

[Intimidated, Sternberg took his professor's advice and enrolled in an introductory applied mathematics class, yet that too proved difficult.] I failed the midterm and the professor recommended that I drop the class, ... So I did.

Robert Sternberg

Some science professors were missing out of federal grants because they did not have 12-month contracts.

Terry Strieter

Professors certainly have a right to disagree about pedagogy, ... It would have been both illegal and immoral for Brooklyn College to allow KC Johnson to face another official inquisition. Thankfully, this dire outcome has been averted.

David D. French

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Ann Arbor News wrote the first story. After that, the company business expanded, and professors started asking me about business.

Jared Press

It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant. [About elvish language].

Liv Tyler

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

David Casey

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Andrea Lewis

Cultivate connections [and] talk to your professors.

Heather Cunningham

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

In class work, it is easy to learn only what is needed for a grade. When doing research, I try to understand what I am studying completely. Another great thing about it is that I get to work one on one with professors in my field.

Josh White

Professors have been threatened. Doctors have been killed in their clinics. Killing has become common. Some people believe this is intentional, to try to empty Iraq of its elite.

Amer Hassan Fayed

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

James Reilly

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

Amanda Thompson

These professors connect us with future developments of SEC policies and work to push emerging technology solutions for industry adoption.

Patrick Taylor

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Now big investors are getting cold feet and are exiting the stock. That a dentist would see the same problems with bone loss as the Gothenburg professors has fueled the fire.

Patrick Laager

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions.

Wen Jiabao

One of the professors here used to say to us, 'Dr. King's birthday as we celebrate it is not a day off, it's got to be a day on,' and I think that's wonderful, ... And I think that at every moment we have to ask ourselves what we are doing to advance justice.

Anna Brown

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil

I have confidence that qualified professors will be selected to fill the available spots.

Meredith Mize

I'm the same age as some of my professors, ... But coming in to teaching later in life gives me an entire whelm of experience to teach the students.

Jeff Evans

The kids play, the professors play -- the exchange of information is just wonderful. This opportunity wouldn't be possible without the grant.

Tom Schilt

I think there is an Indiana Jones kind of thing with professors. A lot of professors have very different hobbies aside from teaching.

James Kellaris

(Applying early or contacting professors) shows interest.

Justin Doty

Professors and most of the people here don't know about it. It is not publicized or anything. My age only comes up occasionally. If the person doesn't know me, they feel threatened perhaps. But once they get to know me and become my friend, it doesn't enter their minds anymore.

Sarah Nie

Because of the pool problem, we did carefully examine law firms and professors as well in looking for good women and minorities to appoint as district judges and appellate judges.

Bradford A. Berenson

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Marco Polo

Many students have dropped classes taught by part-timers because those professors do not have office hours. Struggling students in a class with no office hours sometimes end up falling through the cracks.

Julie Ivey

I joined because I was curious, but I haven't done anything to my profile or looked at anyone else's. I don't think the students posted their information knowing that professors could read it, and it's none of my business.

Jay Newell

It wasn't as difficult in Egypt because the professors were more laid back. Over there, high GPAs don't really factor into getting a good job. It's more about who you know and your parents' connections, so there wasn't as much of an emphasis on grades.

Anne Morrison

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Richard Mentor Johnson

He was one of the few people that could shut everybody up. He knew exactly what was going on. He cut many professors off by the knees. Someone would come in with an argument and he knew how to prove them wrong.

Geoff Bump

Right now we're trying to work with faculty and professors about what to do with our classes.

Leslie Jensen

You look around to the faculty, administration here, a lot of them are mainstream white professors and faculty. You have very few people of color.

Justin Davis

I miss my friends, the professors at Princeton, a lot of good people. It could be the end. It depends on how I feel and the sense of the team. When I'm done, I'll know it. I'll be satisfied.

Pete Carril

T'ai Chi is not only good because you get a break from class and time to relax, but you get instruction from a rotation of three different professors who each have something different to contribute.

Kevin Duffy

Most finance professors in the back room, where their name isn't quoted, would tell you they think the market has gone crazy.

Ivo Welch

I've had professors say, 'You need to consider graduation,' 'You're graduating in August,' 'You need to consider if you're willing to transfer to the U,' 'You need to consider what your options are before you do this.'

Ashley Sanders

We have access to some of the top professors in the world. The Edgerton Center [at MIT] and [Harvard's] Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences [DEAS] have gone above and beyond to make sure that we have everything that we need.

Kristina Haller

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Hal Boyle

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

David Horowitz

Most of the time, the professors, even if they don't really understand how the tournament works, they're more than accommodating.

Kenny Donaldson

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

Daniel Payne

It could be a negative statement about life in Nevada, but when you're talking family issues, it could be (about) any number of other factors, ... That goes for CEOs, not just little college professors.

Eric Herzik

We're so close to Florida Tech that you get the children of professors and students. We benefit from that.

Eliud Nieves