If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
~ James Baldwin
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
― Michel Foucault
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
~ Niels Bohr
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Crisis? What Crisis?
was released on this day in 1975
Crisis? What Crisis? – the fourth studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – November 29 – in 1975 by A&M Records.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
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