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and, by the merits of the Mother of Mercy, he did himself conceive and give birth unto the spirit of Gospel truth.

1951, Martin graduated from Crozer. He was the top student in his class.

If your boss hands you a project to manage and you ask what she means by "project" and "manage," this chapter is for you.

I mostly find religiosity annoying, right up at the top of the annoying is the pigheaded certainty of the devout without the doubt.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

Doing my homework one day, in the little box room in Cedarwood Road, I looked out the window as Guck Pants went by on a unicycle. Playing the trumpet.

work for you in the second half; they positively work against you. The Franciscan friar Richard Rohr put it to me like this: "It's our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.

praying to find the intimacy of a band that could be useful to our audience this evening

Whenever it is written—and I hope it will be—the part that the Yankee teachers played in the education of the Negroes immediately after the war will make one of the most thrilling parts of the history off this country.

My theory of literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness—writes about people you could introduce into your own home. I agree with my Uncle Sydney, as I once heard him say he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals, as you know from my telling you my theory of life.

The Shakespearean theatre was the product of the entrepreneurial maritime culture of the age,

Their most important contribution to civilisation is that they were both neglectful of the child.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

Bullshit is a sales pitch for an interpretation of reality that comes with any interpretation of reality. All interpretations of reality are bullshit. Freedom is not being dominated by your own bullshit.

Defenders of belief in the institutions of religion, government, and business are the enemies of liveliness.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then— click —a world opens.

can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

weekend at bernie's is not a realistic movie

human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is apparent from the abortion debate.

When a burdened Augustinian friar in Wittenberg in October 1516 lamented in a letter how busy he was, no Reformation was in sight. Only Luther's religious anxiety and his pastoral concern for Christian souls were present. By the summer of 1521, Martin Luther is Europe's most famous man and its all-time bestselling author.

Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.

resonance. "We had a key decision to make," he says. "Was distribution a commodity or was it a core competency?