The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust The return to graduate school after winter break is always tougher than I expect. From being treated like a prince at home, I return to the stables where memories of grand feasts, shoulder rubs, and encouraged…
We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous Every time I’ve traveled to a new place—whether that is a foreign country or another town in Ohio—it reminds me how little of the world I have actually seen. The different clothes, the different customs, the different sauces you use…
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Anonymous Well, only now, sitting in the airport, did I realize I failed to note in last week’s post that I’ll be taking a break from the blog this Wednesday and the next. Through good fortune (and my father’s wallet), I am currently on my way to Europe…
Man is by nature a social animal…Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. — Aristotle I made the following brazen claim to someone today: “Give me anything about life, and I will apply…
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams These last few weeks we’ve been exploring the psychological construct of power and how it affects our thoughts and behaviors. And today’s concluding post on the topic couldn’t have had a better, real life corollary:…
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky Every year around this time, the President of the United States is granted more power than he has at any other point in the year. That is, he gets to decide whether he will grant clemency for the Thanksgiving turkey. Now granted, every…