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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
Campus Life at the
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup on this day in 1967
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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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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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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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We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr
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