Learning for its own sake means exactly what it says: learning is the only reason that you’re doing it, because learning is what matters.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Campus Life at
the University of Akron
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Campus Life at
the University of Delaware
Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
Alexander Pushkin died
on this day in 1837
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin – the Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era – died at the age of 37, on this day – January 29th in in 1837 in Saint Petersburg.
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Quote, Unquote
We are in an age of politics when every victory is Pyrrhic, because to gain office is to become the very thing—the establishment, the incumbent—that a part of your citizenry will inevitably want to replace. Democrats have been temporarily banished to the wilderness by a counterrevolution, but if the trends of the 21st century hold, then the very anti-incumbent mechanisms that brought them defeat this year will eventually bring them back to power.
~ Derek Thompson
via How Donald Trump Won Everywhere
published by The Atlantic
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Campus Life at
Eastern New Mexico University
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
~ Hannah Arendt
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