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W. W. Norton: Don't make the world worse

wwnorton:

I know that I’m supposed to tell you to aspire to great things. But I’m going to lower the bar here: Just don’t use your prodigious talents to mess things up. Too many smart people are doing that already. And if you really want to cause social mayhem, it helps to have an Ivy League degree. You are…

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   I know that I’m supposed to tell you to aspire to great things. But I’m going to lower the bar here: Just don’t use your...

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    Genius.

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    “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”—C.S. Lewis

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    I know that I’m supposed to tell you to aspire to great things. But I’m going to lower the bar here: Just don’t use your...

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    Words to live by.

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    so true.

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