“The Republican Senate caucus is akin to America’s country club, whereas the Republicans in the House of Representatives are basically the regulars at America’s truck stop.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
Gmail was launched
on this day in 2004
Gmail was launched on this day – April 1 – in 2004.
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In some ways, we’ve just reestablished the old hierarchy rooted in wealth and social status—only the new elites possess greater hubris, because they believe that their status has been won by hard work and talent rather than by birth. The sense that they “deserve” their success for having earned it can make them feel more entitled to the fruits of it, and less called to the spirit of noblesse oblige.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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QuarkXPress was first released on this day in 1987
QuarkXPress 1.0 — the first stable iteration of the desktop publishing platform — was first released on this day — March 31, 1987.
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Breakfast in America
was released on this day in 1979
Breakfast in America – the sixth studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – March 29 – in 1979 by A&M Records.
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Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, and its ministers. To annihilate it or submit it to the discussion of each individual is the same thing; it lives only through national reason, that is to say through political faith, which is a creed.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
~ Jim Collins
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
~ Niels Bohr
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