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by
Bill Dedman
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February 17 - February 28, 2023
“Non scholae sed vitae discimus,” meaning “Not for school but for life we learn.”
Sympathy, the great bond between human beings, is largely dependent on imagination—that is, upon the power of realizing the feelings and the circumstances of others so as to enable us to feel with and for them.
Andrew Carnegie’s theory was that life should be divided into three stages: education, making money, and giving all the money away.
On that scale, he would rank third today on the Forbes 400, far ahead of Google’s founders or Rupert Murdoch, behind only Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and just ahead of the industrialist Koch brothers, who have brought a new spotlight to the influence of money in politics.
