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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
Campus Life at the
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~ Walter Bagehot
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A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call ‘democracy’ is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Campus Life at the
University of Guelph
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It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Amazon was founded on this day in 1994
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon on this day – July 5, 1994 – in Bellevue, Washington.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
~ James Baldwin
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Wherever the Information Age economy showers money and power onto educated urban elites, populist leaders have arisen to rally the less educated: not just Donald Trump in America but Marine Le Pen in France, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. These leaders understand that working-class people resent the know-it-all professional class, with their fancy degrees, more than they do billionaire real-estate magnates or rich entrepreneurs.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God’s empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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