In our society, temperance will not help a poor man to enrich himself, but it may help him to respect himself. Good work will not make him a rich man, but good work may make him a good workman. The Industrious Apprentice rose by virtues few and narrow indeed, but still virtues. But what shall we say of the gospel preached to the new Industrious ( Read more... )

В 1914 году я поступил в Московский университет. Николай Николаевич Лузин был тогда за границей. Но он договорился с Дмитрием Федоровичем Егоровым, что они организуют семинарий для студентов. И в 14-м году Дмитрий Федорович такой семинарий организовал. Он был посвящен числовым рядам. В следующем году Николай Николаевич вернулся в Москву и начал ( Read more... )

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I can't tell you how often over the years I'd be walking [a 13-year-old Labrador] in our neighborhood and someone in a pickup would pull over and shout some variation of the following:

"Bet she hunts well."

"Do much hunting with the bitch?"

"Where you hunt her?" Leave a comment

Don't tell me that regulators were stupid or bankers got greedy until you first explain to me why tens of thousands of very well educated people, most of them graduates of colleges and professional schools that had aggressively winnowed them based on intelligence, barely outperformed a bunch of upstart micks, third-generation coupon-clipping WASP ( Read more... )

The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude. They took this in for a second, and then one of them said, with a dawning sense of self-awareness, “So are you saying that we’re all just, like, really ( Read more... )

It was just awful. When you’re in high school, everyone tells you, “There’s a lot of repetitive bullshit and standardized tests; it’ll all be better once you’re in college.” And then you get to your first year of college and they’re like, “Oh, no-it gets better when you’re in grad school.” So it’s just same shit, different day-I couldn’t take it.

После советского вторжения интеллектуалы в Чехословакии разделились. Люди со слабым характером тут же начали ликвидировать людей с характером сильным. Примерно то же самое у нас происходило при Гитлере: многие сотрудничали с немцами ради карьеры. Так кроваво, конечно, не было, но третьесортные авторы смогли основать союз писателей, из которого ( Read more... )

By looking at slave folktales, we can see how the story of Flossie and the Fox is a sophisticated discussion ( Read more... )