There’s no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
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As with taxation and relations between the sexes, higher education is essentially and continuously contested territory. Given the history of that crisis rhetoric, one’s natural response to the current cries of desperation might reasonably be one of boredom.
~ John Searle
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized before.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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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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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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