Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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College is an opportunity to stand outside the world for a few years, between the orthodoxy of your family and the exigencies of career, and contemplate things from a distance.
~ William Deresiewicz
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We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
~ Will Rogers
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I learned a lot from architecture.
~ Dieter Rams
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~ Peter Drucker
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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To say a situation is ‘lost’ or hopeless is in one sense equivalent to saying it is perfect, for in both cases efforts at improvement can bring no positive results.
― Mancur Olson
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments – that is, the sacrifices – to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.
~ William Deresiewicz
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