Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
~ Diane Arbus
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
~ Marcel Proust
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A curious feature of Franz Kafka’s prose is that, pared down though its lexicon may be, it resists translation. There’s a good reason for that. Dictionaries supply more definitions for basic words than for those of greater complexity because simpler ones are the roots of vast family trees of words; plain language signifies promiscuously.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
~ A. J. Liebling
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Daily Five
Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Nevada:
- Lee Business School – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- College of Business – University of Nevada, Reno
- School of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Business – Nevada State University
- School of Business – College of Southern Nevada
- Business Department – Great Basin College
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Daily Five
Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Montana:
- College of Business – The University of Montana
- Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship – Montana State University
- College of Business – Montana State University Billings
- Department of Business & Accounting – Carroll College
- Business & Information Technology – Montana Technological University
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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