Like human resources, the Democrats are a party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance. It is in this way that the Democratic Party feels not so much infuriating and threatening, but just kind of an annoying bummer.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
~ Will Rogers
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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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At colleges and universities everywhere, the syllabus has become a terms-of-service document.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Pat Benatar – Promises In The Dark (Live)
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
~ Sun Tzu
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Society’s logic is faulty, but its intimation of an enemy is not. Still, the social conflict with society is an incidental obstacle in the artist’s path.
~ Mark Rothko
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I never met a man I didn’t like.
~ Will Rogers
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The traditional university student matriculates to learn but also to become an independent adult. In its own small way, as a document that could and should be consulted, the syllabus gave students an opportunity to exercise self-reliance—and teachers a way of holding them accountable.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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