When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Skype turns 21 today
Skype was first released today – August 29 – in 2003.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
~ Franz Kafka
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Campus Life at
the University of Iowa
Campus Life at
Villanova University
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
~ Milan Kundera
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Sexual desire encompasses desires for power, belonging, advantage and disruption that we would not typically think of as erotic.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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Campus Life at
the University of Portsmouth
Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
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Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Thomas Sowell
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