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Academia was created by business, religion and government as an enclosure for intelligent, altruistic people to keep them occupied and feeling important, and distracted from exposing corruption and working for change.  Fortunately, this strategy hasn't always succeeded.

Earon : Primate
Earon Davis
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
 
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
 
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
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