Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Daily Archives: July 2, 2024
Five Canadian Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Campus Life at the
University of Maine
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To college-bound students, I would say this: The college campus is full of salesmen eager to get you to buy the deluxe model without so much as a test drive. But it’s your life and your mind, and—as of present writing—you have every right to think and speak and write for yourself. You’re needed out here.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Campus Life at
Cal State San Bernardino
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Founded in the wake of the Cold War to meld Europe’s nation-states into an “ever closer union” and to form a continental government that would practice a new kind of politics, the European Union has wound up more outdated than the nation-states it was meant to supplant.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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