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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you...

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The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

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I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. ...

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The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerce...

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There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them una...

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This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘se...

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There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual com...

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

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