Clark Kerr Quotes

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Clark Kerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 17, 1911 - December 1, 2003

Topics

BalanceConfusedAimPossibleWhole

You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

Joe Morton

MindMeYouImportantWantWhy

Well, I like to have fun at work.

John Malkovich

WorkFunHave FunWellLike

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Tommy Chong

WorkMeKnowActivismMaySomebody

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Tom Reed

GoodPerspectivePoliticsDriveNeed

I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.

Roger Stone

MoneyFriendsYouBackRunTalk

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

NatureTechnologyHistoryCulture

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

Liu Xiaobo

BecomeHong KongYears100 Years

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.

Jason Isbell

DayPeopleWake UpEvery DayGoUp

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

IdeasProblemNeedRightWithout

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.

Dean Ornish

LifeHealthFoodDayChoicesChoose

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Clifford D. Simak

IntelligenceUniverseMeaningWithout

I've owned a lot of dogs in my life - Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life's simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!

Bob Peterson

LifeDogLovePersonalitySimple

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