A defining characteristic of American universities is how much administrative busy work faculty are subjected to relative to what one typically experiences at European universities.
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Five American Universities
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The new Luddites—a growing contingent of workers, critics, academics, organizers, and writers—say that too much power has been concentrated in the hands of the tech titans, that tech is too often used to help corporations slash pay and squeeze workers, and that certain technologies must not merely be criticized but resisted outright.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
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It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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