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Monthly Archives: June 2024
Campus Life at the
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Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
~ Dieter Rams
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The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.
~ Gustave Courbet
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How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
~ Walter Kirn
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I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic.
~ George C. Marshall
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Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Dallas
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The best way to increase societal wealth is to decrease the cost of goods, from food to video games.
~ Sam Altman
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