March 2011
10 posts
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“Much of what we do not hear, we first choose not to hear.”
– James V. Schall, SJ
“At the end of The Apology, Socrates himself, still addressing the jury that...”
– James V. Schall, SJ, Last Things: On Rereading The Apology
February 2011
28 posts
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“I think very often we seek (or should seek!) to transform what Maggie Gallagher...”
– EveTushnet.com
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“The older I get the more suspicious I am of spirituality as something ethereal,...”
– Gregory Wolfe, Religious but Not Spiritual
Heck, just read the whole thing.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, Religious but Not Spiritual
“When people talk about their IT departments, they always talk about the things...”
– The end of the IT department - (37signals)
Apropos of my own post earlier this week. Also via Daring Fireball, whose author probably is not so appreciative as I am of the comment, a few paragraphs later in the article, on unions as a force for stagnation.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair
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“Michael Sanderson is worried. Dr. Sanderson, a biologist at the University of...”
– Scientists Crunch Data to Build an Evolutionary Tree of Life - NYTimes.com (via ayjay’s new tree project)
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Quanta
The quote I just posted on the problems of Nokia has helped to crystalize some thinking for me (also influenced by my having a Windows NT laptop foisted on me by the IT department at my current job).
Despite its many goods and utilities in enabling the rise of modern science, the cult of the “quantifiable” will eventually be recognized as a fundamental fallacy and disease of the modern era....
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“As it happens, the value-engineering mindset that’s so crucial to profitability...”
– Nokia: Culture will out « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird (via Daring Fireball, of course)
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“Pine woods are just as real as pig sties, and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.”
– Mr. Carpenter in Emily’s Quest, L. M. Montgomery
Provided by my wife.
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“One might argue that literacy is unalloyedly a good thing – yes, I can think of...”
– Reading is overrated | Books | guardian.co.uk.
(via ayjay)
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“Method of investigation: as soon as one has arrived at any position, try to find...”
– Simone Weil
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“George Bernard Shaw said he went to church for recreation. “I like the...”
– Alexander Theroux, The Strange Case of Edward Gorey (2010), 127.
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“Jacobson is quick to point out that GTG makes its intellectual property on...”
– Genetic Technologies’ Mervyn Jacobson: The richest man in Eden? - Anthill Magazine
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“For there is nothing noble or courageous in “not being a burden” on...”
– A Via Dolorosa Not to Be Missed
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“We have been trained in the secular world to disregard life as something holy...”
– Elizabeth Scalia, A Via Dolorosa Not to Be Missed
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““This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” Dr. Haidt concluded,...”
– Social Psychologists Detect Liberal Bias Within - NYTimes.com
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“If anything is certain in this life it is that we all will, at some point,...”
– Chelsea Zimmerman, Refusing to Suffer Is Refusing to Live
“But let no man imagine God to himself according to the lust of his eyes. For so...”
– Augustine, Homilies 7.10 (via wesleyhill)
“He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.”
– Michael Chabon, “That Was Me” (in Werewolves in Their Youth)
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“What the Church must do for such a people is not to meet them in the mud, or in...”
– Anthony Esolen, When Drab Is a Favorite Color
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“… one of those things that is too big and too near to see.”
– Anthony Esolen, When Drab Is a Favorite Color
“People often justify their ugly little parishes by saying they don’t...”
– Spiritual Sustenance: Feed Us with Your Beauty
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“In our encounter with the Bible, tarrying in persistent non-understanding is...”
– Miroslav Volf, “Reading the Bible Theologically” (in Captive to the Word of God)
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“The parent is happier who does not fear for the means because Christ has secured...”
– David Mills, The Anxious Parent | First Things
“Be Not Afraid” is one of the secrets buried in platitudes.
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“Hermeneutical and methodological questions are at best of secondary importance...”
– [John Webster, “Reading the Bible” in Word and Church: Essays in Church Dogmatics, 109]
Adiaphora: Our Refusal to be Spoken To
