At times our more privileged campuses can seem stuck in the world of archaic religion. Only those with an approved identity status are, like shamans, allowed to speak on certain matters.
~ Mark Lilla
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Happy Icelandic National Day
Wishing all of our Icelandic readers a Happy þjóðhátíðardagur.
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
~ Richard Rorty
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Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
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Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
~ Claude Shannon
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Freedom is the recognition of contingency.
~ Richard Rorty
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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