The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Daily Archives: November 7, 2024
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Chicago 1968 taught one how close any civilized country is to berserkness at all times; also how terrorism, even silly terrorism, strengthens the cops more than anyone.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Arlington
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The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Five American Universities
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Five American Universities
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera
The Museum of Modern Art opened
on this day in 1929
The Museum of Modern Art in New York was opened on this day – November 7 – in 1929.
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Campus Life at
the University of Idaho
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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