All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Colleges have become a little too closely tied to the policy objectives of one of the two political parties.
~ Steven Brint – Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Riverside
via Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump
published on November 11, 2024 in the New York Times
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The iPhone 12 mini was released
on this day in 2020
The iPhone 12 mini was released today – November 13 – in 2020.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men never respect what they have made themselves. This is why an elective king never possesses the moral power of a hereditary sovereign, because he is not noble enough, that is to say he does not possess that kind of greatness independent of men and that is the work of time.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything.
~ Walter Bagehot
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Campus Life at the
University of Guelph
Lisa Su was born on this day in 1969
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su – the president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices – was born on thi day – November 7, 1969 – in Tainan, Taiwan.
She holds a BS, MS, and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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