“The propensity of American university professors to eat their lunch in front of a computer screen is among the strangest things a European academic will encounter upon taking a posting in the United States.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Monthly Archives: May 2024
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Serious reflexion about one’s own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Five American Universities
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Life, of course, never gets anyone’s entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
Microsoft acquired Skype on this day in 2011
Microsoft aquired Skype on this day – May 10 – in 2011.
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