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Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things - such as art and classical music - that had not previously been part of my life. I went to college thinking that I might teach history in high school or that I might seek a career in the retail industry, probably working for a department store, something I had done during the holidays while in high school. I came out of college with plans to do something that had never crossed my mind four years earlier.

College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.