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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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OMG. I have missed the 2015 deadlines to apply for a PhD (in philosophy) so I am taking a leisurely 'extra' year now, to look at all the universities to which I want to apply. I had thought about UVa, especially as I toured the campus this summer and saw how beautiful it was. I was also looking at Dalhousie (in Halifax, NS), and last night, I was looking at UNC Chapel Hill. All three of them have now had scandals! I wonder if that philosophy prof at UNC taught ethics. Ha ha. :(
I'm going to apply to quite a few universities and that will allow me to choose from several offers, but isn't is depressing when scandals happen. Is anyone immune? I think it may be a department-level type of happening. It's probably rare that the malaise infects everyone.
Yes, she was in ethics. No kidding. She even ran a center.
It’s very difficult for people in academia not to go along: I think that would help to explain what was happening with lower-level people in this scandal. Then again, they could choose to walk away. Those at the top might have other explanations.
Oh – and best wishes for finding a good program.
Chatting with a brother-in-law about the New Year's bowl games, I mentioned the scandal, and he laughed. As a rabid football fan, he told an anecdote of another university football player who complained about having to take any classes. After all, the reasoning was, he was there to play ball. Double entendre intended, it seems many in the faculty and administration are there to play ball also.
Aren't many universities like UNC in the business of athletics? Nothing to see here . . . move along . . .
But the especially interesting thing here is the participation of a philosopher whose speciality is (or was?) ethics.
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