Deception is the knowledge of kings.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it?
~ Franz Kafka
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.
~ Will Rogers
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
~ Hannah Arendt
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There is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means to become an adult.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power.
~ Timothy Snyder
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Decades into a digital revolution that will make lifelong work in any single sector rare, we need dynamism—not status quo–ism—in higher education. In our knowledge-intensive economy, we will need an ever-expanding, highly educated workforce. As important, we will need a broader base of wise, gritty learners. We cannot build what we need if we assume that the developmental experience of every 20-year-old will be the same.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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