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"the greatest library in the world"

 "If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready."

J. R. R. Tolkien was a close friend

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

― C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]

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"The history of ideas is pretty much the history of people being wrong."
- Chuck Klosterman

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"What's in writing stays."

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"The oldest continually operating library in the world."
- Regarding Merton College Oxford, which was founded in 1373

Most famous painting in Oxford

Paolo Uccello, The Hunt in the Forest, circa 1470

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Oxford University, founded 1096

"Of the 85 institutions that are still around from 500 years ago, 70 are universities."
- John Sexton, New York University

a place to stay in Oxford

The Macdonald Randolph Hotel

Oxford lectures on iTunes here.

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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
- Thomas de Quincey [1785-1859] wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [1821] which was about his opium and alcohol addiction.

A contemporary perspective on murderous thoughts from Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker here.

An Elephant Called Religion

Oxford's Richard Dawkins explores religion in "The Root of All Evil?"

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Part 2 of 2

Oxford

Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library, Oxford University

Founded in the 12th century, the oldest English language University encourages you to apply. Alternatively, watch lectures on iTunes U.