Ever since time began, it’s been moving ever forward without a moment’s rest. And one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Daily Archives: February 24, 2024
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
~ Toni Morrison
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A new paper by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Larisa C. Cioaca, Lia Sheer and Hansen Zhang, five economists, suggests that universities’ blistering growth and the rich world’s stagnant productivity could be two sides of the same coin.
~ via The Economist
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
~ Mark Twain
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A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.
~ William Deresiewicz
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