It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Campus Life at
University of Strathclyde
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My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man’s better nature … The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.
~ Dean Acheson
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A world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale
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A document called “syllabus” persists, and is still distributed to prospective students at the start of each semester—but its function as a course plan has been minimized, if not entirely erased. First and foremost, it must satisfy a drove of bureaucratic needs, describing school policies, accreditation demands, regulatory matters, access to campus resources, health and safety guidelines, and more.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Robert Solow was born
on this day in 1924
Robert Solow – the American economics professor, author, and Nobel laureate – was born on this day – August 23, 1924 – in New York City.
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