The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking. - Clark Kerr - Quotesmemo.com

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

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Clark Kerr

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

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The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

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I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

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The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

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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.

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

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