#courses

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses. ↗

— Christopher Parker

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#fieldwork #folklore #i #involving #more

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well. ↗

— Joe Henderson

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Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6) ↗

— Jay Rayner

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