Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
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Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
~ John Steinbeck
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via Stony Brook University
The Generative AI Statement recently published by Stony Brook University can be found here:
Generative AI: Teaching Resources
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
~ Rollo May
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Campus Life at the
University of Brighton
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La difficulté d’écrire l’anglais m’est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l’on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
~ Charles Dickens
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If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created. Only if we recognize the danger in time can we hope to avert it.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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