- Donghua University
- Xiangtan University
- Peking University
- Xidian University
- Hefei University of Technology
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
Five Universities in Mainland China with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Five Universities in Mainland China with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
~ Alexander Pope
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You’re told that you’re supposed to go to college, but you’re also told that you are being self-indulgent if you actually want to get an education. As opposed to what? Going into consulting isn’t self-indulgent? Going into finance isn’t self-indulgent?
~ William Deresiewicz
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I worry that if we let our real-life interactions be corralled by our filter bubbles and branded identities, we are also running the risk of never being surprised, challenged, or changed—never seeing anything outside of ourselves, including our own privilege.
~ Jenny Odell
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If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
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