The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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In the ceremonies of the public execution, the main character was the people, whose real and immediate presence was required for the performance.
― Michel Foucault
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USB-C standard published
10 years ago today
The USB-C standard was published on this day – August 11 – in 2014.
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
~ Niels Bohr
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Every man is a new method.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Marine Le Pen was born on this day in 1968
Marion Anne Perrine “Marine” Le Pen — French lawyer and current member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais — was born on this day — August 5, 1968.
She holds both a Master of Laws and a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in criminial law from Panthéon-Assas University.
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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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All social disturbances and upheavals have their roots in crises of individual self-esteem, and the great endeavor in which the masses most readily unite is basically a search for pride.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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