- CSU Chico
- University of Central Florida
- University of Louisville
- American University
- University of Mississippi
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Daily Archives: January 10, 2025
Five American Universities
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
~ John le Carré
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Pat Benatar was born
on this day in 1953
Patricia Mae Giraldo — the American singer known professionally Pat Benatar was born on this day — January 10, 1953 — Brooklyn, New York.
For a year, she studied health education at Stony Brook University.
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
~ Franz Kafka
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