"I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel."
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"So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers."
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"If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not."
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"If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified."
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"I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet."
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"Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward."
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"We must look a long time before we can see"
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"I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn."
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter."
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"As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander."
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]"
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"Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe."
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"Why look in the dark for light?"
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"Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery."
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"If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family."
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"Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'"
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"If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years."
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"You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional."
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"All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small."
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"Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word."
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