Monthly Archives: June 2011

Quote for the Day

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? –Robert A. Heinlein Send to Kindle

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Quote for the Day

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory. —Sir Bernard Ingham Send to Kindle

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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. –Daniel J. Boorstin, “A Case of Hypochondria,” Newsweek (July 6, 1970) Send to Kindle

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Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. –Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology Send to Kindle

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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not … Continue reading

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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, … Continue reading

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Daily Proverbs

My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your … Continue reading

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With a mental effort, he grabbed hold of his thoughts and braked them to a stop. There was something new here, factors he hadn’t counted on. He kept reassuring himself there was an explanation for everything, once you had your … Continue reading

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Daily Proverbs

My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck. When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when … Continue reading

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He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make … Continue reading

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