13 Quotes by William Strauss

unnecessary, inappropriate and inconsistent with the values of a great university.

We believe that the endowments should be used for the benefits of current and future generations of students. There was a year in which Harvard spent one-eighth of its endowment earnings on its fund managers.

Here the issue will be: What is our response to the sparks?

My number one concern is how are we going to take care of people who can't get these jobs.

You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life,

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

They're so logo-washed, so heavily branded when they are young,

History is seasonal, and winter is coming.

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time’s recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal – whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.