Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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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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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
~ Hannah Arendt
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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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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
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The New Deal is a phase of the transition process from capitalism to managerial society. The New Deal is not Stalinism and not Nazism. But no candid observer, friend or enemy of the New Deal, can deny that in terms of economic, social, political, ideological changes from traditional capitalism, the New Deal moves in the same direction as Stalinism and Nazism.
~ James Burnham
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