Believe me; democracy in action can be an unpretty sight.
~ Iain Banks
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The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
― Walter Benjamin
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
~ Fred Allen
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~ Audre Lorde
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Religion is a paramount aspect of human culture. Religious need cannot be excommunicated from culture by rationalist incantation. Man does not live by reason alone.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Tate Modern Gallery
turns 25 today
The Tate Modern Gallery in London, England was opened on this day – May 11 – in 2000.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
~ Franz Kafka
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