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"We may not be the biggest university in the Big Ten, but there's no reason we can't be the best university in the Big Ten. You guys are making it the best university in the Big Ten."

Lisa Bluder, women’s basketball coach, to students at the University’s 14th annual Dance Marathon, which raised more than $1 million for children with cancer and their families earlier this month (Daily Iowan, Feb. 4).

"It's not just that they lose vision. They paid somebody [who they perceive] took their vision away."

Christine Sindt, associate professor of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences in the Carver College of Medicine, on a Food and Drug Administration study that will examine links between depression and failed laser eye surgery (Red Orbit, Feb. 3).

"The idea of failure never crossed her mind. That's very critical to entrepreneurial success."

Lynn Jahn, assistant director of the UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center in the Tippie College of Business, on Miss Iowa Diana Reed, a 2007 UI graduate and entrepreneur who competed in the Miss America competition in January (Fortune Small Business, Jan. 30).