Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Ten o’clock to one qualifies as late at night in southern California, where hardly anything reputable’s open after nine.
~ David Foster Wallace
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No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
~ Mark Twain
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Campus Life at
the College of Charleston
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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We want to build such an education system in India that youngsters do not need to go abroad to study. In fact, we would want foreign students to come here and study.
~ Narendra Modi via The Pie
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Robert Solow was born
on this day in 1924
Robert Solow – the American economics professor, author, and Nobel laureate – was born on this day – August 23, 1924 – in New York City.
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Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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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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