Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
~ James Baldwin
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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We have now, for better or worse, entered the Age of Artificial Intelligence. AI is already good at regurgitating information from a lecture. AI is already good at standardized tests. AI can already write papers that would get A’s at Harvard. If you’re hiring the students who are good at those things, you’re hiring people whose talents might soon be obsolete.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The Fascist system has to carry on persistently the task begun by the Fascist Movement: the destruction of the democratic parties, organisations, and institutions in society. Fascism must then proceed to attempt to change the nature of human consciousness itself.
~ Karl Polanyi
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Every artist was first an amateur.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
~ James Baldwin
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Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Any institution is only a political structure. In physics and in morals, the laws are the same; you cannot build a large structure on a narrow foundation, nor a durable structure on a moving or transient base. In the political order, therefore, if one wants to build on a large scale and for the centuries, one must rely on an opinion, on a large and profound belief. For if this opinion does not dominate a majority of minds and if it is not deeply rooted, it will furnish only a narrow and transient base.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
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Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.
~ Edmund Cooper
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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