The cultivation — even celebration — of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
~ George Will
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Monthly Archives: August 2024
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Deng Xiaoping was born
on this day in 1904
Deng Xiaoping – the Architect of Modern China – was born on August 22, 1904 in Guang’an, Sichuan during the last stages of the Qing Empire.
He served as the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from December 1978 to November 1989.
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Campus Life at
City University of London
Campus Life at
UC Berkeley
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Campus Life at
Ohio State University
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Full in-boxes and endless meetings are not intrinsic parts of office work in a digital world; they’re instead a response to an unexpected crisis that subsequently spiralled out of control. The turmoil in knowledge work following the arrival of the pandemic showed the unsustainability of this state of affairs.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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