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In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

Bill Bryson
Sex, Dope, University Students
Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.72, VNR AG

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

Shirin Ebadi
Men, University Students, Iran
"Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

Evangeline Lilly
Jobs, University Students, Car

At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name.

Jack Spicer
Tired, University Students, Names
Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian (2008). “My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.426, Wesleyan University Press

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

Noam Chomsky
University Students, Choices, Climate
Source: www.publicanthropology.org

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

Muriel Beadle
Heart, University Students, Self

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Kim Hyesoon
Writing, Thinking, University Students
Source: www.guernicamag.com

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

Kate Cruise O'Brien
Death, University Students, Able
Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

John Lydon
Fun, University Students, Parent

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

Aung San Suu Kyi
Government, University Students, Addiction

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