March 2012
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The Man Who Planted Trees - JEAN GIONO →
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In order for the character of a human being to reveal truly exceptional qualities, we must have the good fortune to observe its action over a long period of years. If this action is devoid of all selfishness, if the idea that directs it is one of unqualified generosity, if it is absolutely certain…
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February 2012
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
– - Jacques Maritain
He was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul...
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A meditation on two epistemological approaches to... →
meanderingsofyore:
When you play the role of the Master, where you have to fit all reality inside your head, get outside it and underneath it and hold it in your hand so as to Know it and be its Master, the overwhelming size of reality can crush the spirit and leave you in despair.
When, on the other hand, you are…
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A few years ago, when I was beginning to work on my book about the American...
– Andrew Delbanco
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I love with my hand, not my heart.
When I draw your face,
my fingers trace...
– Annie Dillard
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anyone lived in a pretty how town by E.E. Cummings →
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anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did.
Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon stars rain
children guessed (but…
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Ethicists Argue for Post Birth Abortions | Blogs |... →
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muzical84:
Well, it WOULD be consistent with legal abortion…
^THIS. This is where concluding that a fetus has no moral worth gets you. Next step: legalized infanticide!
“Then they came for the (fill in the blank)_____________”.
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But there’s another, more self-serving reason that a particular type of...
– Paul McCartney’s Kisses on the Bottom and the problem with Great American Songbook albums. - Slate Magazine
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A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are...
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davidmhur asked: Awesome blog. God Bless.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative...
– Albert Einstein
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When I considered that this had all sprung from the hands and from the soul of...
– The Man Who Planted Trees - JEAN GIONO (via therapyinminneapolis)