Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at the
University of Kansas
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Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
Comedy Break
Undercover Boss: Where Are They Now – SNL
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The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines’ understanding individuals with the same degree of subtlety (or more than) we can expect from other human beings, including idiosyncrasies and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Learning Object
via David Allen
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Marine Le Pen was born
on this day in 1968
Marion Anne Perrine “Marine” Le Pen — the French politician and lawyer who has served as the Member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017 — was born on this day — August 5, 1968 — in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
She is a graduate of Panthéon-Assas University, where she earned a Master of Laws and a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in criminal law.
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