Chairs For The Promotion of Knowledge Extension and Reflexion On Social Problems
- UNESCO Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean
Set up by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Rovira i Virgili University, the UNESCO Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean aims to promote an integrated system of activities involving research, training, information and documentation in the field of intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the Mediterranean.
- Chair for Science and Humanism
The Chair for Science and Humanism was set up to drive, promote and spread the values of science in society from a humanistic perspective and increase their social visibility: that is to say, the aim of the Chair is to generalize and socialize knowledge in this area.
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no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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That every man in arms should wish to be?
It is the generous spirit, who, when brought
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That makes the path before him always bright:
Who, with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down—not by solving the problem, but by deciding it’s their own damn fault.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)