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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Campus Life at the
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“Libertarianism is a half-baked ideology that a certain type of young man gravitates to because he is unwilling – or perhaps unable – to think beyond his sociopathic self absorption.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Five American Universities
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The New Luddites see a moment rife with exploitation and challenges, in which tech is used to oppress, squeeze, or surveil. Yet that moment is also rife with hope for a future in which technologies are not “foisted” upon ordinary people; one in which more of us have a stake in how that future is made.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject’s blind self absorption and the journalist’s skepticism.
~ Janet Malcolm
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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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