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Only one further step was required to reach the stage described by Scott Buchanan in 1932 (America as Americans See It, ed. F. J. Ringel, New York, 1932) when the spirit of American thought came to be dominated by (1) Russian Jewish immigrants who found intellectual American life "thin," (2) middle and far western American students who substituted romantic idealism for their Protestant faith and went mentally bankrupt in eastern schools, and (3) eastern students who went to Europe for thrills or Ph.D.'s and came home in a state of shock.

David H. Stewert

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This building doesn't have a basement but it does have a floor -1. Which is less amusing when they put the button next to the 1 button.

S.P.

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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."

-Cato the Elder. (via quotedojo)

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Colleges aren’t monasteries. They can’t give their students spiritual sustenance; they can’t provide an escape from modernity. And they shouldn’t be faulted, or punished, for that.

Joshua Rothman on why the “crisis in higher education” is really the crisis of modernity: http://nyr.kr/1qSgRAe (via newyorker)

[observando]

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell (via observando)

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"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."

-Aeschylus. (via quotedojo)

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In truth, when I look at the various regions of the world, Europe worries me least, because it seems that more so than elsewhere it has taken stock of the scale of the challenge facing humanity; because it has the necessary people and institutions to debate them effectively and work out solutions; and because the EU provides a project to commit to and strong ethical concerns, even if sometimes it seems to take them too readily for granted.

Amin Maalouf

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We don’t see ourselves as a “patriotic” organization, which waves a little American flag and tries to promote America. Rather, we believe that the United States is so big, so teeming, so powerful, so complex, so full of life and creativity and violence and confusion, that everyone--Americans included--needs to continually study what it is.

The John Adams Institute

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Sometimes it feels like we are all just playing characters, sometimes comedic, sometimes dramatic. And I can't remember my lines.

David Mateo Self

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Find me an obviously intelligent man, a man free from sentimentality and illusion, a man hard to deceive, a man of the first class, and I'll show you a man with a wide streak of woman in him. Bonaparte had it; Goethe had it; Schopenhauer had it; Bismarck and Lincoln had it; in Shakespeare, if the Freudians are to be believed, it amounted to downright homosexuality. The essential traits and qualities of the male, the hallmarks of the unpolluted masculine, are at the same time the hallmarks of the Schafskopf. The caveman is all muscles and mush. Without a woman to rule him and think for him, he is a truly lamentable spectacle: a baby with whiskers, a rabbit with the frame of an aurochs, a feeble and preposterous caricature of God.

H.L. Mencken

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Among the theologians and philosophers those of highest distinction were regularly University Professors: Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Bonaventura, all the great array of Doctors angelic, invincible, irrefragable, seraphic, subtle and universal.

Charles Homer Haskins

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Beijing cannot be a great city simply by attracting global Fortune 500 companies. Citizens need to feel that they are living in a great city, and need to be connected to the city in meaningful ways. A great global city is first and foremost a vibrant city for its own residents, not just for others.

Feng Wang; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings-Tsinghua Center

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The Italians have the Papacy, the Germans have the Empire, and the French have learning.

Maxim.A

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Nations sometimes pursue unsustainable military spending; they keep going at it until they no longer have the economic resources to sustain their military spending.

Ozudi Osuji

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Oh! That I could wear out my mind any mean and base affectation; conquer my natural pride and self conceit; expect no more deference from my fellows then I deserve; subdue every unworthy passion, and treat all men as I wish to be treated by all.

John Adams

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If women don't thrive, the world won't thrive.

Hillary Clinton

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The desire to seek comfort and relief in physical objects, turns into weakness.

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai