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Daily Archives: February 3, 2024
Campus Life at the
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In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society.
~ Che Guevara
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Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties — the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Wherever the experience of nationality is weak or non-existent, democracy has failed to take root. For without national loyalty, opposition is a threat to government, and political disagreements create no common ground.
~ Roger Scruton
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Gertrude Stein was born
on this day in 1874
Gertrude Stein – the American writer and art collector – was born on this day – February 3, 1874 – in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
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Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman won or woman lost?
~ William Butler Yeats
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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
~ John le Carré
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via University of Cincinnati
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
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The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
~ Herta Müller
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