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Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator. [..] You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated. [..] Will you cease this outrage?
mahmoud ahmadinejad— Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, 24 September 2007"Iran's president at Columbia University - a transcript". azstarnet.com (24 September 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Benjamin Banneker (August 30, 1791).
Hyaenas have earned a reputation for cowardice, due partly to the caution they exhibit in refraining from attacking other animals that might hurt them, partly to their fear of man,and to their offering no resistance when pursued and speared on horseback, a method of assault they can have no instinct to deal with. But in their favour it may be pointed out there are records of a single hyaena driving a panther from its "kill".
— Pocock, Reginald (1941) The Fauna of British India Vol. II, Taylor and Francis
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.
ted sizer— p. 95 (Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (1984))
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
gilbert keith chesterton— Chapter XIII "Celts and Celtophiles"
The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
h. l. mencken— Ch. 15 "The Dismal Science"
