I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.
~ Mark Twain
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Financial World Magazine – October 1989
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
~ Albert Camus
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Gareth Antigua has joined the HigherED.zone editorial team
Dmitri O’Bannon has joined Gareth Antigua, Seamas Anstruther, J.P. Tedrow and myself to build a blog that captures the impact of digital media on the higher education sector both in the United States and across the globe.
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