People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
Facebook was launched
on this day in 2004
Facebook was launched on this day – February 4 – in 2004. During its first days of operation, Facebook was only available to Harvard students.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful.
― Ansel Adams
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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