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Monthly Archives: August 2024
Campus Life at the
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
~ Dean Acheson
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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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In a zero-sum world, one with no or very little growth, democracy can become antagonistic as people seek to vote money away from each other. What follows from that antagonism is distrust and polarization. In a high-growth world the dogfights can be far fewer, because it’s much easier for everyone to win.
~ Sam Altman
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Campus Life at the
University of Arkansas
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Chris Murphy was born
on this day in 1973
Chris Murphy — the junior United States senator from Connecticut — was born on this day — August 3, 1973 — in White Plains, New York.
Senator Murphy is a graduate of Williams College and holds a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:
~ John le Carré
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How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you’re hungry. If you can’t think of anything else.
~ Herta Müller
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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