No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
~ Adam Grant
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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History is experimental politics.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
~ James Baldwin
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I am a perfect stranger to France, which I have never seen, and I expect nothing from her king, whom I shall never know.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
~ Niels Bohr
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Whenever I’m in the company of capitalist capitalists, I’m reminded of the stark limitations of the symbolic variety. Think of how easily Elon Musk purchased and then destroyed that vanity fair of knowledge workers formerly known as Twitter.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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