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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Controversial Love Letters to Lorena Hickok
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Controversial Love Letters to Lorena Hickok

“You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.”

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As We May Think: Vannevar Bush’s Prescient 1945 Vision for the Information Age, the Power of “Curation,” and the Need for Open-Access Science
As We May Think: Vannevar Bush’s Prescient 1945 Vision for the Information Age, the Power of “Curation,” and the Need for Open-Access Science

“There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.”

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A Message to Humanity: Charlie Chaplin’s Iconic Speech, Remixed
A Message to Humanity: Charlie Chaplin’s Iconic Speech, Remixed

“We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.”

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Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck
Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck

On incremental change and “unresisting imbecility.”

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