It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.
タグ: everything, your, ambition, suicide

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No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
タグ: balance, live, death, life
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.
タグ: space, world, people, time
Reality is a powerful solvent.
タグ: powerful, reality
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
タグ: ideal, past, democracy, future
I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.
タグ: think, me, family, life
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