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Carl Borgmann Quotes

1905–1998 United States

Carl Williams Borgmann (June 3, 1905 – November 29, 1998) was an American chemical engineer, academic administrator at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Nebraska, president of the University of Vermont (UVM), and director of science and engineering for the Ford Foundation.

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If any one thread runs through the UVM story, it is the continual belief that higher education should be pre-occupied with the progress of mankind.

Basic to a free society is the belief in a golden rule. Just as you feel you have the right to your opinion, you must feel that everyone else, in turn has a right to his.

We can all join that most worthwhile of all wars—the fight for tolerance, the fight for wisdom, the fight for freedom. Above all else, continue to develop your tastes—material and spiritual—so that you may learn to choose the best values from life's many alternatives.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Borgmann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.