Oliver Cromwell – the English statesman, politician and soldier – was born on this day – April 25, 1599 – in Huntingdon – in what has then the Kingdom of England.
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Monthly Archives: April 2025
Oliver Cromwell was born
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Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~ Milan Kundera
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Campus Life at
the University of York
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In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and are as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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Campus Life at
University of Louisville
Campus Life at
University of Strathclyde
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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