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Excellent Sheep (2014)
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We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
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Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn't enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world's systems) to allow you to do.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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William Deresiewicz
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1964
(age 60)
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