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15 July 2024

  • 20:0120:01, 15 July 2024 diff hist +1,215 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderPeople think, and so did I when I was young, that ADHD is, "This kid can't pay attention," when in fact what it means is, you are unable to control what you pay attention to. So generally when you have ADHD, you are paying more attention than most people, but to the wrong thing. ~ Trevor Noah current

13 July 2024

11 July 2024

  • 18:0018:00, 11 July 2024 diff hist +40 Bildungsroman+date +link
  • 17:5417:54, 11 July 2024 diff hist +796 N BildungsromanThe ''Bildungsroman'' is a sort of laboratory in which the hero conducts an experiment in living. For this reason, it is a particularly useful medium for writers whose main concern is a philosophical answer to the practical question: What shall we do with our lives? ... The Bildungsroman is the natural form of serious fictional art. ~ Colin Wilson
  • 17:3317:33, 11 July 2024 diff hist +235 HistoryAfter such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now // History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors // And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, // Guides us by vanities. ~ T. S. Eliot current

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17 May 2024

  • 16:3216:32, 17 May 2024 diff hist +419 PeriodizationTo speak of a phase (or paradigm) of capitalist development is already to project the existence of capitalism into the future, to give it a duration and a normality, when our theory should move in the opposite direction, showing that capitalism will exist tomorrow only if we create it tomorrow. ~ John Holloway current

16 May 2024

  • 16:4716:47, 16 May 2024 diff hist +426 Science educationA stage of precision is barren without a previous stage of romance: unless there are facts which have already been vaguely apprehended in their broad generality, the previous analysis is an analysis of nothing. It is simply a series of meaningless statements about bare facts, produced artificially and without any further relevance. ~ A. N. Whitehead current

12 May 2024

27 April 2024

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