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“People who fondly imagine themselves the subjects of their ‘own’ choices entirely will, in reality, be the most manipulated subjects, and the most incapable of being influenced by goodness and beauty. This is why, in the affluent Anglo-Saxon West today, there is so much pervasively monotonous ugliness and tawdriness
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Mothers increasingly look like their daughters, and they, mothers and daughters, both behave like little girls. Fathers compete with their sons. We all try to stay young until we die. Nobody wants to be lumped in the “old jerks” category anymore. That’s why the world, or the richest and
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Public support should be shifted from protecting large established corporations to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises. And startups should be discouraged from rushing into the embrace of the stock market’s short-sighted analysts and many an established corporation should be encouraged to escape that embrace. At the same
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“Most of us became interested in reading because of being read to,” says Margaret Thickstun, a professor of English at Hamilton, who will orchestrate another “Milton Marathon” in February. She hopes to condense this one to 10 uninterrupted hours. “These readings revive the notion that poetry is not a private,
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In 1917 as today... But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things. We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our china is a
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he was looking for total unification with his beloved, she was after a few aphorisms from the master Though it does read like the Sarkozy-Merkel marriage of convenience of current EU negotiations, it's actually about older French writer Cioran and his younger German mistress. A Romanian immigrant
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Here's [sic] a few reasons why: If you absolutely MUST have a meeting, follow these rules.
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Edited by William Irwin The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium. Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: “Am
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We do not really know someone unless or until we know their story. We might know their history or their pedigree, but do we know their story? We might have heard their stories and anecdotes, but do we know their story? And we know that we know their story when
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Beauty exudes.
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The UK High Pay Commission published its final report, Cheques with Balances: Why tackling high pay is in the national interest, shows stratospheric pay increases which have seen wealth flow upwards to the top 0.1% away from average workers. It sets out a 12-point plan based on transparency,