The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
~ Milan Kundera
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Daily Archives: October 16, 2024
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks
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Campus Map
University of Waterloo
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George C. Marshall died
on this day in 1959
George C. Marshall – the American statesman and Army general – died on this day – October 16, 1959 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Campus Life at
Illinois Tech
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
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Learning Object
Jonathan Haidt | The Moral Foundation of the Left and Right
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Campus Life at
Tsinghua University
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Programs offering bachelor’s degrees are stuck in a predictable mold: Most classes are between three and four credit hours; each semester’s load is between 12 and 18 credit hours; each semester’s length is 15 weeks; each year is two semesters; four years makes a degree. In an economy and culture as dynamic as ours, this much standardization makes little sense.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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