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Long lines. Delays. Profound discomfort. All essential components of the Thanksgiving travel rush, as unwelcome yet reliable as death and taxes...
...deeply saddened by the death of John Rawls. He combined profound wisdom with equally profound humanity. Few if any modern philosophers have had as decisive an impact on how we think about justice,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers in a statement. “Scholars in many different fields will continue to learn from him for generations to come...
...Mount Auburn Cemetery and wandered through acres furrowed with headstones and eroding statues. The sky was that distant hard blue you see only in the fall, and sunlight filled the laps of all the seated weeping angels. In that clear cool silence, everything I saw seemed charged with profound meaning; the wasps that, drowsy in the chill, buzzed through the fretted door of a crypt nauseated me. We are, I thought, the wasps and I, the only quick creatures in all these acres of graves, and they are moribund. The dying wasps were too obvious a reflection on mortality...
...occurs to me that what is lost in the breadth that such an education demands is a depth that makes it radiant. We read to finish, not mull over, debate, question, create. In our training to maximize efficiency, we somehow lose time and space in which to be profound...
...occurs to me that what is lost in the breadth that such an education demands is a depth that makes it radiant. We read to finish, not mull over, debate, question, create. In our training to maximize efficiency, we somehow lose time and space in which to be profound...