#academic

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

War is not an academic exercise. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#exercise #war

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#almost #any #average #average man #breed

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

#acting #ad #background #because #career

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

#background #brother #brother and sister #chance #dad

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#both #education #financial #forgetting #important

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

#began #fiction #full-time #i #instantly

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#destruction #i #implements #interested #mass