Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Campus Life at the
Birkbeck, University of London
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
~ Marlon James
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The iPhone 3G
turns 16 today
The iPhone 3G was released today – July 11 – in 2008.
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Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
Campus Life at
La Trobe University
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The British monarch is both the head of state and that state’s most closely watched prisoner, forbidden to say or do anything remotely human, let alone political.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.
~ Arthur Koestler
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