The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: What were the five largest metropolitan areas in the United States by population in the year 2010.
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA (18,897,109)
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA (12,828,837)
- Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI (9,461,105)
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (6,371,773)
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (5,965,343)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Lyric Fragment
Show me round your snow peaked mountains
Way down south
Take me to your daddy’s farm.
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out.
Come and keep your comrade warm.
Back in the U.S.S.R by The Beatles
Lyrics by John Lennon / Paul McCartney
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