No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Campus Life at
Ulster University
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First delight, then instruct.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.
~ Edmund Cooper
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
~ Gertrude Stein
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All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games.
~ Iain Banks
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Book Recommendation
The Gifts of Imperfection:
10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools
by Brené Brown
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
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