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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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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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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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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The iPhone 3G
turns 16 today
The iPhone 3G was released today – July 11 – in 2008.
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Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
~ Niels Bohr
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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