- University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
- Metropolitan State University
- SUNY New Paltz
- Skidmore College
- Amherst College
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
~ Roger Scruton
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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Gavin Newsom — the 40th Governor of California — was born on this day — October 10, 1967 — in San Francisco, California.
Mr. Newsom holds a degree in political science from Santa Clara University.
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