If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

~ Dorothy Parker

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You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

~ Eric C. Sinoway

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I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

~ Irven Devore

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He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

~ Rick Riordan

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The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is youniversity. YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.

~ A.e. Samaan

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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

~ Edgar Fiedler

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It felt like one of those movies where a bunch of misfits, each gifted in his own way - one in explosives, another in disguise, another in forgery or karate- are thrown together to achieve a dangerous mission.

~ Philip Delves Broughton

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Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.

~ James Henry Breasted

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The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt hat, as he walked briskly but rather ungracefully across the college yard, fitted very well with the opinion current among us that we were looking upon a real live genius, who had a touch of the prophet in his make-up.

~ William Elwood Byerly

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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

~ Wendy Davis

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