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When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ↗

— William Penn

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. ↗

— David Remnick

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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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