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Daily Archives: May 1, 2025
Late Night Music Fix
Campus Life at the
University of Nottingham
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man’s better nature … The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.
~ Dean Acheson
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Campus Life at the
University of Georgia
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program
via The New York Times:
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program
by Natasha Singer
published on March 24, 2025
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Midday Music Fix
Pearl Jam – Daughter
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The advantages of elite higher education compound over the generations. Affluent, well-educated parents marry each other and confer their advantages on their kids, who then go to fancy colleges and marry people like themselves. As in all caste societies, the segregation benefits the segregators. And as in all caste societies, the inequalities involve inequalities not just of wealth but of status and respect.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
~ Blaise Pascal