“Quickly is an important adverb in any context.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Daily Archives: September 12, 2023
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University of California – Los Angeles
Congratulations, @darnell_hunt for being appointed UCLA’s next executive vice chancellor and provost!
Learn more about Darnell Hunt's new role and previous leadership at https://t.co/b6ObeYfQFc pic.twitter.com/RB5PXgfVXq
— UCLA (@UCLA) July 11, 2022
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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London School of Economics
We are live now for “Russia-Ukraine Dialogues: perspective from frontline states” webinar. A conversation between @peterkreko, @bogzaw1984, @IonelaCiolan, @eglod_katia and @LeonHartwell.
Join on Zoom: https://t.co/tDIGsf5ECI
Join on Facebook: https://t.co/HlXnH3aYnF pic.twitter.com/oWJ5VhjRWH— LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) May 3, 2022
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University of Rochester
All episodes of @LeagueOnPrime are streaming—and if you watch closely you might catch Rochester alum Beth Greenwood ’22 who made several trips to Pittsburgh last fall to film scenes for the show #GoJackets ⚾️https://t.co/bzXKacwbmL@URbaseball @UofRathletics @rochesteralumni pic.twitter.com/pX7RdR6rQd
— University of Rochester (@UofR) August 16, 2022
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Marxism performs the function of a religion, and its efficacy is of a religious character. But it is a caricature and a bogus form of religion, since it presents its temporal eschatology as a scientific system, which religious mythologies do not purport to be.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Book Recommendation
A World Without Email
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
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