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A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

A nation's treasure is in its scholars.

Chinese Proverb

If we insist on a high road to morality that forbids us to have anything to do with dirty fingers, we won't get the stuff scholars need to understand the background of the Bible.

Hershel Shanks

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.

Anne Raver

I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Scott Turow

The availability of these manuscripts will provide unprecedented opportunities for scholars and musicians at the school and elsewhere for many years to come.

Joseph Polisi

If it goes on view with other like objects, then scholars get to see it and study it; the public gets to come; the claimant, if there is one, gets to know where it is and file a claim. Who has lost in this process?

Timothy Potts

There hasn't been a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work about the state in many, many years. We see this as being a great resource for scholars, journalists, tourists and those in the economic development field.

Steve Murray

It's mostly been a fun project. But I've also heard from Korea scholars and people at think tanks who say it's a useful research tool.

Geoff Davis

IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud to help make China's rich musical history accessible for the first time to scholars, students and fans of Chinese culture around the globe.

Kevin Arnold

If the instance of Ramadan is any indication, we are concerned about scholars ... who may be prevented from coming to speak with us, to meet with us.

Barbara Deconcini

I felt like for the Post-Herald to provide an opportunity to recognize those outstanding scholars was fantastic.

John Draper

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Alfred Austin

We are especially concerned that senior Islamic scholars will be barred from the UK purely on the basis of media witch-hunts orchestrated by pro-Israeli elements.

Inayat Bunglawala

Leading constitutional law scholars have come out and said that what the president is supporting ... would indeed strike at the heart of any state's ability to pass domestic partnership benefits [and] civil unions.

Cheryl Jacques

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Benjamin Rush

At ISU, we provide more opportunities for our scholars to further their education and to become the best teachers that they can possibly be.

Dakota Pawlicki

That's welcomed, by Ward Churchill, because when you get scholars in the field, which these (standing committee) folks are not, then he will be vindicated.

David Lane

I was one of the few American scholars who knew anything about the group. So they asked if I could investigate them to prove they had nothing to do with the attack.

J. Gordon Melton

It just so happened that I was going to be her advisor for the Presidential Scholars program that summer.

Katherine Klem

Every year, we receive thousands of scholars and experts from abroad, but it is only in recent years that the Chinese have began to appreciate New Year pictures.

Guo Shurong

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Geoffrey Chaucer

It's our job to develop students as scholars, as people and as players. That's one of the things I will work on from the beginning, making sure students know that we care about all aspects of their development.

Tim Osborn

Even being remembered in history books keeps one's memory alive only for a while-if not in the memories of the masses, at least in the minds of scholars,".

Jack Nichols

I sincerely believe that other maps exist and books exist [that support the claims], but no one has been paying attention to them. It is my purpose to try to wake these [scholars] up.

Liu Gang

I dare say there has never been an assemblage of so many distinguished Francis Marion and Revolutionary War scholars outside an academic context in the state. We had some of the top people on the Revolutionary War and Marion involved in the discussions.

Ben Zeigler

Some of those people may have never thought of OU as an option before the Urban Scholars Program, ... Exposure of OU was also increased in many urban communities because of the program's presence.

Linda Daniels

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Spencer Abraham

The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars.

Stephen Roe

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Robert Mayer

These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them.

Brian Wice

There exists an overwhelming consensus amongst scholars who study education: large high schools are educationally and socially detrimental to our students.

Laura Tarman

We've set the bar to get to the final four and not just get there, but win it all. These girls are scholars of the sport who have learned the game mentally and have the athletic ability to succeed.

Fred Sosnoski

I will meet with world scholars and discuss the readings and enjoy the weekends on my own. I will walk a lot in London this summer.

Nancy Weston

This is our 15th year to have the honors reception. It's a way to recognize scholars at all the private and pubic high schools in White County.

Donnie Miller

He will always have his baseball legacy, but he was also an amazing husband and loving father who worked for social change. So we know he is so proud of our scholars, and our growing list of alumni.

Sharon Robinson

As our poll shows, and legal scholars agree, the awesome power of government to penetrate citizens' most private communications must not be held in one set of hands.

Michael Greco

Many (academic staff) are outstanding scholars and teachers. We want to help them have a say in running the campus and help them have reasonable career progression.

Patricia Brennan

The Clark Prize is a natural extension of the Clark's dual mission of advancing scholarship while building public appreciation of art. We are pleased to give the inaugural Clark Prize to these distinguished individuals and we celebrate the impact that their work has had on scholars, people interested in the arts, and the public in this country and around the world.

Michael Conforti

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.

Jameel Jaffer

To lift that pall will require a new generation of scholars and professionals who explicitly reject naturalism and consciously seek to understand the design that God has placed in the world.

William Dembski

We as lawyers and politicians have infinite debate without appreciating the situation. Some of these constitutional niceties scholars debate maybe don't apply to a time when airliners are crashing into 110-story buildings.

Gene Riccio

Lukashenko allows some democratic window-dressing because he needs to demonstrate his legitimacy to the world. But all independent media, politicians and scholars in Belarus are under intense pressure. We face a real war against us.

Oleg Manaev

This archive will have immense historical significance and will be a terrific boon for scholars for several generations.

Sara Bloomfield

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Frederick The Great

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

That a group of works that have remained together for 200 years should be split up for financial reasons means that any opportunity for scholars to see them has evaporated.

Nicholas Serota

I've been away from college a long time, and this has allowed me to hear some real scholars. It's invigorated and inspired me.

Carol Wright

It is not routine for scholars to disclose the nature of their clinical practice as a potential conflict of interest. For example, the presence of a cardiovascular surgeon as an author of an article about whether a certain cardiac surgical technique was safe would not represent a conflict of interest.

Philip Darney

To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.

Karl Shapiro

We've got to get away from the idea that scholars in the Islamic world can do our thinking for us. We need to start thinking for ourselves.

Tariq Ramadan

We look forward to expanding our relationship with Gladstone scientists to help train CIRM scholars and to help expand the public's understanding of all aspects of regenerative medicine.

Charles Carlson

Karachi is mourning the death of so many religious leaders and scholars.

Shahid Ghori

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right.

Eugene Volokh

'Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students'.

Ernest Van Den Haag

As synthetic worlds grow in importance, we'll see scholars, legal analysts, and game industry experts under increasing pressure to generate sensible guidelines for different aspects of the practice.

Edward Castronova