The Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup on this day – May 2nd – in 1967.
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
~ Blaise Pascal
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
~ John Ruskin
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The advantages of elite higher education compound over the generations. Affluent, well-educated parents marry each other and confer their advantages on their kids, who then go to fancy colleges and marry people like themselves. As in all caste societies, the segregation benefits the segregators. And as in all caste societies, the inequalities involve inequalities not just of wealth but of status and respect.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Fifty might be the new 40, but 80 years old is still 80 years old.”.
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Google Translate was launched
on this day in 2006
Google Translate was launched on this day – April 28 – in 2006.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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