Showing posts with label CB Not Hist315. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CB Not Hist315. Show all posts
Saturday, December 02, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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[ Responding to the question why he was not a member of any specific religion: ] Because they all appear to have prohibitions, admonitions...
Friday, December 01, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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There are, of course, more important things than art: life itself, what actually happens to you. This may sound silly, but I have to say it,...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; but when I asked why people are poor, they called me a communist. -- Bishop Don Held...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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My first concern is not for the reader. That would be pandering. My first concern is not for myself. That would be self-indulgent. The write...
Monday, November 27, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Antoninus said to Rabbi, "Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?" He replied, "Were it reversed, you would a...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint on...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Elements such as magic are labeled fantasy because their vocabulary is not scientific, and because they are placed in vaguely medieval world...
Friday, November 24, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Some men interpret nine memos. -- Palindrome by William Irvine Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? -- Palindrome...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Three themes of anime: carnival, elegy, armageddon. -- Seen on the internet; source lost [I read this in an Oubapo posting, more than a d...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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If America ceases to be a free country, you won't necessarily notice. It won't smell different, dark clouds won't gather on the...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Since I started doing interviews, I’ve answered the "preaching to the converted" question more than any other. It seems to me pred...
Monday, November 20, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it. (And not all young ...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
Saturday, November 18, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. -- Joan Didion
Friday, November 17, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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An excuse uglier than the guilt. -- Iraqi saying, as quoted on the internet (so take with salt!)
Thursday, November 16, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. -- Sidney Hook
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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The only completely consistent people are the dead. -- Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt
Monday, November 13, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. -- Tacitus
Sunday, November 12, 2017

From a Commonplace Book

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You say you have a counterexample to my argument, but you must be misunderstanding me, because I did not intend for my argument to have any ...