If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Campus Life at
City University of London
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Faced with a growing number of chores, you push what you can onto other people’s plate, and they respond in kind. The result is an onslaught of ad hoc assignments, whipsawing across inboxes and chat channels, that culminates in a shared state of permanent overload.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Campus Life at the
University of Cincinnati
Notable alumni
Harvard Business School
Steve Bannon – former chairman of Breitbart News Network and the American Rasputin – is a graduate of Harvard Business School – class of 1985.
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It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the world. The rain clawed at the windows of the bar like an angry cat and tried to sneak in every time some drunk lurched in the door. The place reeked of stale beer and soggy men with enough cheap perfume thrown in to make you sick.
~ Mickey Spillane via The Big Kill (1951)
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