That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and toy for the most audacious feats of the liberated intellect.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
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Full in-boxes and endless meetings are not intrinsic parts of office work in a digital world; they’re instead a response to an unexpected crisis that subsequently spiralled out of control. The turmoil in knowledge work following the arrival of the pandemic showed the unsustainability of this state of affairs.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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General Lyman Lemnitzer was born
on this day in 1899
Lyman Lemnitzer – the American four-star general who served as the 4th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO – was born on this day – August 29, 1899 – in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College.
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Campus Life at
Eastern New Mexico University
Midnight Trailer
Is This Thing On? w/ Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett
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Five British Universities
to follow on Instagram
Campus Life at
the University of Iowa
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The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
~ Roger Scruton
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Patricia J. Williams was born
on this day in 1951
Patricia J. Williams — the American legal scholar — was born on August 28, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts.
She is a graduate of both Wellesley College and holds a law degree from Harvard University.
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