I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: February 2025
Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
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Both Franz Kafka and the Bible are inexhaustible sources of meaning because they overflow any box we build around them. They exist on a plane of Western consciousness so formative of ours today that they seem to come from everywhere and nowhere.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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The perfect university provides sex for students, sports for alumni, and parking for faculty.
~ Clark Kerr
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Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
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What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended?
~ Jenny Odell
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Campus Life at
University of Strathclyde
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Of all the nations in the world the French are the most renowned for singing over their grievances. Of that country it has been remarked with some truth, that its whole history may be traced in its songs.
~ Charles MacKay
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