Quotes of Tenure - somelinesforyou

“ Now it is virtually impossible for a vocal conservative to be hired for a tenure-track position on a faculty anywhere, or to receive tenure if so hired. The conservative faculty members I encounter who have achieved this feat, invariably tell me that they were forced to keep their political orientation to themselves until they achieved tenure. ”

- David Horowitz

“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. ”

- Unknown

“ The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down. ”

- Collis P. Huntington

“ You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well. ”

- Billy Rose

“ The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. ”

- Sir John Vanbrugh

“ I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. ”

- Edward M. Forster
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