It is true that when pride releases energies and serves as a spur to achievement, it can lead to a reconciliation with the self and the attainment of genuine self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Monthly Archives: June 2025
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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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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Campus Life at the
University of Adelaide
Morning Movie Clip
“Battle of the Steves” | Steve Jobs
Battle of the Steves (Jobs vs. Wozniak Ending) | Steve Jobs
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Campus Life at the
University of Brighton
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Founded in the wake of the Cold War to meld Europe’s nation-states into an “ever closer union” and to form a continental government that would practice a new kind of politics, the European Union has wound up more outdated than the nation-states it was meant to supplant.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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Campus Life at
Boston College
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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