#scholars

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#beautiful #because #cello #college #different

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#rake #scholar #scholars

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today. ↗

— Debbie Meyer

#available #college #done #had #i

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#get #i #major #scholarship #school

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#go #got #i #medical #medical school

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#applied #choice #dedicated #faculty #i

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

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference