The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don’t just go away, they are only postponed to someone else’s advantage.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: April 2025
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
Campus Life at
the University of Delaware
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“Man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
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Faced with a growing number of chores, you push what you can onto other people’s plate, and they respond in kind. The result is an onslaught of ad hoc assignments, whipsawing across inboxes and chat channels, that culminates in a shared state of permanent overload.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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Happy Shōwa Day
Wishing all of our readers in Japan a Happy Shōwa Day – which honors the birthday of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) each year on April 29.
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Five American Universities
to follow on Facebook
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This is a moment of enormity for American higher education. Many of President Trump’s top advisers are the architects of Project 2025, which seeks to dismantle higher education, not reform it, and to replace what they perceive as woke Marxist ideology with their own conservative ideology.
~ Lynn Pasquerella – President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities
via Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump
published on November 11, 2024 in the New York Times
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