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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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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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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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