The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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The working class isn’t a puzzle whose solution comes with a prize—it isn’t a means to the end of realignment and long-term power. It is a constituency comprising half the country, whose thriving is necessary for the good of the whole.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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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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