I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
Washington University in St. Louis
turns 169 today
Washington University in St. Louis was founded on this day – February 22 – in 1853.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Revolutions dress up in the costumes and rhetoric of the past for the same reason that, as Karl Marx once asserted, people learning a new language begin by translating word for word from a language already known to them.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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An economy that gives most people the chance for a decent life doesn’t arise by accident or through impersonal forces.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~ George Orwell
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