Harvard Quotes - Page 8

• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy:
  (a) I think, therefore I am; or
  (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but
  (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

  Tom Holt

  Thinking, Wife, Groups

  Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK

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• It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

  Robert Darnton

  School, Important, Library

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• Mi trabajo me ha llevado de la investigación histórica a la participación en empresas de edición electrónica y a la dirección de las Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Harvard.

  Robert Darnton

  Taken, Historical, Library

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• As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Historical, President

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• EdX creará una plataforma de código abierto, sin ánimo de lucro, y un portal web donde las universidades ofrecerán sus cursos. Por ejemplo, los cursos del MIT se ofrecerán como MITx y los de Harvard como HarvardX.

  Anant Agarwal

  Creating, Example, Mit

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• Acepté un trabajo en Walt Disney Company y después de 18 meses decidí ir a la escuela de negocios de Harvard. El campus me impresionó. Mi primera reacción fue que éste no era mi sitio. Luego me dije: "Estoy aquí, vamos a ello".

  Jason Kilar

  Jobs, School, Months

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• Todos los historiadores son gente de Harvard. No es justo. El pobre Hoover de West Branch, Iowa, no tuvo oportunidad con esa gente; ni Andrew Jackson de Tennessee. Ni Lyndon Johnson de Stonewall, Texas. Simplemente no es justo.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, Iowa, People

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• There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Men, Sides

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• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  Yara

  Jamaica, Dinner, Professors

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• Dentro de 15 años la mitad de las universidades de EE.UU. pueden estar en quiebra ... al final me emociona ver que eso ocurra. Así que reza por Harvard Business School si no te importa.

  Clayton Christensen

  School, Years, Mind

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• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  Wendy Davis

  Mom, Daughter, School

  "ABC’s Jeff Zeleny Conducts Puffy, Shoe-Focused Interview With Wendy Davis". Interview with Paul Bremmer, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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• Los niños, así como los adultos, en sus hogares individuales, glorificados, a prueba de trabajos pesados en Labrador, los trópicos, el Oriente, o donde se quiera, a donde pueden ir con placer y expedición por medio de medios de transporte cada vez mejores, podrán sintonizar su televisión y radio a la conferencia de imágenes en movimiento de, digamos, el Presidente Lowell de Harvard; el profesor de Matemáticas de Oxford; del doctor de antigüedades indias de Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Education, Intellectual, Important

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• I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

  Steve Sabol

  College, Europe, Ease

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• Creo que no fui gracioso hasta la universidad. Vivía con unos estudiantes de doctorado de Harvard, que eran muy listos, y lo que yo aportaba a la casa era que yo era la graciosa.

  Wendy Liebman

  Smart, College, Thinking

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• Tenía un certificado que decía: "Doctor en Mixología por la Universidad de Harvard". Una amiga mía era ayudante de investigación allí y era una de esas ventajas de los estudiantes o de la universidad y ella me metió en eso. Así que soy doctor por Harvard y sólo me llevó una tarde.

  Ronda Rousey

  Doctors, Research, Afternoon

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• A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.

  Brian Hodge

  Real, Book, Home

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Children, Parent

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• Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Political, Relief

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

  Will Rogers

  Divertido, Humor, Partido

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• The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Differences, Mexican, Chinese

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

  Erich Segal

  Air, Different, Renaissance

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• As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

  Richard Attias

  Growth, Levels, Rivals

  "An African Ivy League" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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