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A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

– Richard HofstadterRate it:

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

– John Anthony CiardiRate it:

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

– Richard HofstadterRate it:

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

– Walter LippmanRate it:

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

– Ted NelsonRate it:

A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer. #Realbandits

– ProverbRate it:

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.

– ChineseRate it:

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

– Marcelene CoxRate it:

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

– Tennessee WilliamsRate it:

A vast majority of people don't like to live in solitude at all because in its bright light their true attitude, behaviour and character get totally nude before their own eyes and this reality can't be viewed by them.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

– Thomas CarlyleRate it:

A vending machine factory is a meta vending machine.

– John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.comRate it:

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American.

– 16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.Rate it:

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

– Mark TwainRate it:

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

– Samuel GoldwynRate it:

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

– William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2Rate it:

A very few employees only gain a real experience and such talents often have a short tenure in their organizations, but others in a majority of numbers merely make a collection of many years usually in a single or couple of companies & pompously claim it in their CV as experience.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

– Ta' Shunke Witko (Crazy Horse)Rate it:

A very important lesson for Leaders comes from children's fairytale 'The Little Mermaid'. You should always be yourself rather than trying to be someone else, particularly an impossible ideal that exists only in your imagination. The Little Mermaid changed herself to become a human so as to win her Prince’s love, and yet the Prince married someone else. That's life! In my view, Leaders should always strive to be natural and proud of who they are.

– Deodatta V. Shenai-KhatkhateRate it:

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

– Eric MascallRate it:

A very ordinary post from influential or financially rich guys gets Likes vote from many or most people on his social media account, whereas an ordinary class, sensible person sharing a very intellectually rich post gets support often from none in his circle. Such is the level of hypocrisy in our society.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A very rarely someone genuinely hits Likes or puts comment on a netizen's content, most lend it with a mere selfish intent to take out profit/ benefit from the host's pant. Beware of boot-lickers/traitors/sycophants who are often seen giving support to the social media post of rich people especially politicians and businessmen

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

– StendhalRate it:

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

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