When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
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In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
~ Franz Kafka
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
~ Franz Kafka
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Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
~ John Ruskin