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• The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

  Pankaj Patel

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• I don’t come from a lot of money and wasn’t going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

  Jon Huertas

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• When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

  Robert Hass

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• You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship – for your grandchildren, for example – or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.

  Mark Skousen

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• We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

  Desmond Morris

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• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  G. M. Trevelyan

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

  David Remnick

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• A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

  Billie Jean King

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

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• I didn’t get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

  Edwin Corley Moses

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• I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

  Ellen Wilkinson

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• If I didn’t have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

  Emmitt Smith

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• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  Quincy Jones

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  Tags in Course, Scholarship, Dry, Seattle, Singers, Arrangement

• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life – who I’m married to now – and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  Victoria Jackson

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• I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

  Christine Baranski

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• Erudition – dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

  Cecil Williams

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