- University of Minnesota Duluth
- Louisiana State University
- UC San Diego
- University of South Carolina Upstate
- UC Davis
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Daily Archives: June 10, 2025
Five American Universities
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In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought.
~ John le Carré
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
~ Marcel Proust
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Campus Life at
La Trobe University
Midday Music Fix
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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