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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at
the College of Charleston
Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will
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Kathryn Hahn was born on this day in 1973
Kathryn Marie Hahn — the American actress best known for her role in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy — was born on July 23, 1973 in Westchester, Illinois.
Ms. Hahn holds a BA in theater from Northwestern University and an MFA in drama from Yale University.
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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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