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Monthly Archives: February 2024
Midnight Trailer
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Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
~ Friedrich Hayek
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A former colleague of mine liked to say that there are certain ideas that vanish in the presence of thought. Among those ideas is settler colonialism — or rather, the invidious, hypocritical and historically illiterate way in which it is often denounced in anti-Israel polemics and protests.
~ Brett Stephens via The New York Times
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Google Maps was launched
on this day in 2005
Google Maps was launched on this day – February 8 – in 2005.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
~ Henry James
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Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Five American Universities
to follow on YouTube
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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