A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
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The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Dean Acheson was born
on this day in 1893
Dean Acheson – the American statesman and lawyer – was born on April 11, 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut.
He was a graduate of both Yale University and Harvard University.
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
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In their anti-learning culture, conservatives have come to view everything that happens, however unwelcome, as proof simply that the most extreme people were the most correct.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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Worcester is famous for the snow dumps it receives in the winter. It has something to do with where the city is in relation to the Appalachian Mountains. The clouds bear down when the temperature drops, and then the snow is relentless and the weather is brutal. All winter, it’s brutal, brutal, brutal, and then somehow, slowly, it’s not anymore. That’s kind of how the end of W.P.I.’s crisis arrived.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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