Lobbying, like Hollywood and Silicon Valley, is a quintessentially American industry.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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As soon as you cast an issue exclusively in terms of identity you invite your adversary to do the same.
~ Mark Lilla
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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More than any other mass medium, radio enjoys a captive audience — if only because so many of the listeners are driving — but in a major market there are dozens of AM stations to listen to, plus of course FM and satellite radio, and even a very seductive and successful station rarely gets more than a five or six percent audience share.
~ David Foster Wallace
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In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
~ John le Carré
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In the broadest possible sense, “what’s wrong” with the modern American university is that although it still understands itself to operate under the model established by the 19th-century German university—which emphasized academic freedom, seminars, and laboratories as means of allowing students to discover the truth for themselves—it’s becoming a parody of that model. The professors are going to tell you what to think, and you’re going to backfill that “truth” with research of your own.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Why do companies struggle to use ideas produced by universities? The loss of the corporate lab is one part of the answer. Such institutions were home to a lively mixture of thinkers and doers. In the 1940s Bell Labs had the interdisciplinary team of chemists, metallurgists and physicists necessary to solve the overlapping theoretical and practical problems associated with developing the transistor. That cross-cutting expertise is now largely gone.
~ via The Economist
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