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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
~ Blaise Pascal
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It’s no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification.
~ James Baldwin
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Confidence is a feeling, one determined mostly by the coherence of the story and by the ease with which it comes to mind, even when the evidence for the story is sparse and unreliable.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Apropos of the third item on above list, Kristina Lutz-Jacobi – the most recent creator to join the HigherED.zone team – recommends the book China’s Second Capital – Nanjing Under the Ming, 1368-1644 by Jun Fang to anyone planning to visit to China’s Southern Capital.
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