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State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#i #just #out #shake #sleeves

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. ↗

— Ludwig Erhard

#believes #biggest #cake #compromise #dividing

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#always #because #become #class #collections

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#air #air conditioning #building #central #conditioning

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#altogether #anyone #avoiding #because #certain time

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#come #criticism #even #fall #love

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#feed #links #look #me #number

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#forms #introspection #most #rewarding