Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
~ Iain Banks
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This is a moment of enormity for American higher education. Many of President Trump’s top advisers are the architects of Project 2025, which seeks to dismantle higher education, not reform it, and to replace what they perceive as woke Marxist ideology with their own conservative ideology.
~ Lynn Pasquerella – President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities
via Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump
published on November 11, 2024 in the New York Times
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For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks
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