Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to make his arguments about human behavior.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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Monthly Archives: May 2025
Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at the
University of Illinois
Campus Life at
Durham University
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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Campus Life at the
University of New South Wales
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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Campus Life at the
University of Alabama
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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