"The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world."
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"Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library."
"The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university."
"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob."
"A library is all the university you will ever need."
"I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter."
"A collection of books is the best of all universities."
"Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny."
"Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience."
"Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University."
"It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often."
"Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too."
"Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that."