Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ David Foster Wallace
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Université de Montréal
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University of Nottingham
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The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro.
~ Marc Chagall
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Texas Tech University
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University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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Millennials love to talk—and gripe—about ambition. What was once a virtue has become a generational bugbear. Millennial women, raised on Girl Power and rom-coms in which the heroine gets the job and the man, joined the workforce just in time for the girlboss culture of the 2010s, which promised that hard work would lead not only to personal success but also to feminist victory.
~ Lily Meyer via The Atlantic
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Xavier University
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
~ James Gleick
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The most notable change of these tumultuous years, the ability to spend more time working from home, hasn’t been a cure-all. Something’s still wrong, above and beyond the usual challenges of office life. Everyone’s tired. What started with the Great Resignation has become the Great Exhaustion.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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