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• The university community consists of three different worlds.
  he sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences....
• Because it's there.
• Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Authoritarian socialism has failed almost everywhere, but you will find not a single Marxist who will say it has failed because it was wrong or impractical.
  He will say is has failed because nobody went far enough with it....
• Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much -- the wheel
  New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• funky adj. Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way.
  It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone....
• funky: adj. Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way.
  It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone....
• Judging a piece of fiction by the quality of its writing without considering its subject matter is like buying a car because it has a pretty paint job
  without considering the state of its engine and transmission. -- Kelvin Throop III...