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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Campus Life at
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Campus Life at
Ohio State University
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The bottom line is that the abrupt rise in digital interaction following the arrival of the pandemic made knowledge work more tedious and exhausting, helping to fuel the waves of disruption that have followed. If we accept this interpretation of events, however, we must also accept the necessity of continuing to seek change. So long as these new and excessive levels of digital communication persist, more haphazard upheavals will inevitably follow.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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If Boomer parents are pulling on one end of the rope in a game of tug-of-war, Millennial and Gen Z kids may be yanking on the other. Gen Xers’ delay in childbearing means that many may find themselves either struggling with infertility or raising little kids in their 40s. Generation X is downwardly mobile as costs are rising, but we’re working hard to give our children advantages that we didn’t have.
~ Ada Calhoun via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Cincinnati
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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