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I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

What I learned on my own I still remember

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter

[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human cu