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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. — The Harvard Lampoon

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry. — P. J. O'Rourke

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. — Andy Samberg

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign. — Chevy Chase

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. — Cass Sunstein

First Day at Harvard [10w]
Smartest kid in the room
walks into room of competitors. — Beryl Dov

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there. — Wendy Davis

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life. — John F. Kennedy

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color. — Catharine MacKinnon

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. — Junot Diaz

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am a real New Yorker ... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale ... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox. — John Catsimatidis

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School. — Greg Brenneman

How about we walk back? Through the cemetery?' One thing my mom had taught me is that it's difficult to refuse requests made in italics. — The Harvard Lampoon

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles. — Andy Kindler

I guess even smart students gossips just like regular people. — Vann Chow

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. — Dan Brown

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed. — Kurt Vonnegut

Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame. — W.Chan Kim

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. — Andrew Weil

My tendency to make awkward situations even more ininappropriate and uncomfortable was such a charming characteristic. — Olivia Harvard

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. — Jack Kerouac

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe. — Steve Sabol

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it — Jay-Z

He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17 — Jill Lepore

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
'light and nice,' it's light and truth. — Scott Kenemore

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. — J.K. Rowling

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame. — Stephen Fry

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. — Dorothy Parker

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance. — Tyra Banks

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. — Larry Wall

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share. — Lisa Randall

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard
In the State of the Sacred Cod,
Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots
And the Cabots speak only to God — Richard Clarke Cabot

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard. — Keith Ferrazzi

Her "green light" was Harvard. "But if I don't get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing. — Maureen Corrigan

I decided to use 'Frown Power.' This is where you socially deter people from being bigoted by frowning at their ignorant remarks. — The Harvard Lampoon

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist. — P. Chidambaram

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person ... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court. — Erich Segal

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. — Malcolm Forbes

Then, suddenly, I remembered the accident, and Edwart's snow-proof body, and his eyes that changed from I-don't-remember to green, and I knew. — The Harvard Lampoon

Of course her daughter got into Harvard: that is exactly the kind of parenting the system rewards. That's exactly what is wrong with it. — William Deresiewicz

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate. — Brian Greene

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me. — Sean Hannity

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. — Derek Bok

Of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went — Barack Obama

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. — Ajay Naidu

I'll have AB positive', I told Josh when he returned from the dance floor, 'What's it made of? Apples and Bananas?'
-Belle Goose — The Harvard Lampoon

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. — The Harvard Lampoon

More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive - incorrect - answer. — Daniel Kahneman

The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61 — Tom Wolfe

Not a Harvard-type education, ... Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education. — Chris Rock

Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor" was the title of the classic 1978 Harvard Business Review — Ellen A. Ensher

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz

a brief respite with the family in Cannes, he road tripped with Harvard — Amber Hunt

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back. — Michael Ignatieff

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy. — Seth MacFarlane

Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident. — Avi Steinberg

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station. — Maria Semple

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. — John Ortberg

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world. — Jim Breyer

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now. — Lara Adrian

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window. — Eduardo Saverin

It suddenly occurred to me that, after all that frolicking in the meadows, he hadn't kissed me. Was it because of the mold that grew in my sinuses? — The Harvard Lampoon

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism. — Karen Armstrong

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world. — Pierre Trudeau

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard. — Chris Bent

But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I — Richard Feynman

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. — Charles Murray

When guys gnash their teeth and knit their brows in a broody, furious expression, it means they have found their soulmate. — The Harvard Lampoon

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. — Yara Shahidi

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim

Listen' he whispered ferociously, like a ferocious breeze or a very gentle hurricane. — The Harvard Lampoon

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven." — Mark Hart

I noticed there was garlic above the doorframe. Edwart held a stake in one hand and a 'Team Jacob' shirt in the other. — The Harvard Lampoon

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder — Helene Munson

There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. — Edwin Land

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. — E.W. Howe

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. — Tina Fey

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing. — Aubrey Peeples

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool." — Calvin Trillin

I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I
could tell from the reflection in the window that it was also
an intriguing expression. — The Harvard Lampoon

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M.H. Abrams

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail? — Clayton M Christensen

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.' — Teju Cole

I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape. — Jack Dangermond

It's tough when markets change and your people within the company don't. — Harvard Business Review

-and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. — Jeremy Lin

(As Harvard's Daniel Gilbert puts it, our future selves often "pay good money to remove the tattoos that we paid good money to get.") — Brian Christian

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series. — Helen Vendler

I'm sleeping with a Harvard grad," I said.
"The Emory of the North," Becker said. — Robert B. Parker

Nice one, Catpiss,' he says. That's not my real name. My name is actually Kantkiss. Kantkiss Neverclean. — The Harvard Lampoon