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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Comedy Break
Austan Goolsbee was born
on this day in 1969
Austan Goolsbee – the American economist and University of Chicago professor – was born on August 18, 1969 – in Waco, Texas.
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Jason Furman was born
on this day in 1970
Jason Furman – the American economist and Harvard University professor – was born on August 18, 1970 – in New York City.
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Campus Life at the
Barnard College
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Campus Life at
Ulster University
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there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This is not the story of a man who joined the people. It’s the story of a man who studied them, branded them and built a media empire on their backs. He frames everything as a spiritual battle — America versus the elites. But Steve Bannon is the elite. He just speaks rage fluently. So here’s the question: if a man tells you he’s at war with the empire while still cashing royalty checks from it, do you believe him? Or do you finally see it for what it is?
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
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