The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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It’s not okay to study history, because what good does that really do anyone, but it is okay to work for a hedge fund. It’s selfish to pursue your passion, unless it’s also going to make you a lot of money, in which case it isn’t selfish at all.
~ William Deresiewicz
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There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers
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Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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You’re told that you’re supposed to go to college, but you’re also told that you are being self-indulgent if you actually want to get an education. As opposed to what? Going into consulting isn’t self-indulgent? Going into finance isn’t self-indulgent?
~ William Deresiewicz
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
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Our intellectual resources are too narrow, and the universe is too complex, to leave any hope that it will ever be within our power to carry scientific perfection to its last degree of simplicity.
~ Auguste Comte
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