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Brian, there's a message in my alphabet soup. It says oooooooo. Peter, those are cheerios.

Zeichen eines großen Schriftstellers (Doderer): man nimmt von ihm auch praktische Ratschläge für den Alltag an

Ein Schriftsteller oder überhaupt jemand, der mit dem Alleinsein fertig geworden wäre, würde mich nicht mehr interessieren

Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8

Without question, the most famous book ever written about angling is The Compleat Angler published by Izaak Walton in 1653. Since

A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, however, write a great story about saving the world, which is what Tolkien did.

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

we are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.

Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

the instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children.

The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.

we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.

shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.

continual dissipation of American forces and morale. She was "petrified" about the consequences for America of making politics subservient indefinitely to military strategy.

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

I sat in my room, glumly putting on a pair of khaki pants and a button-down KI-logo shirt.

Welcome to Paradise," Marco said softly. "Paradise Prison.

Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) has brought me in touch with hundreds more such practitioners.

We need to learn the disciplines that will help cultivate the wisdom of the group and larger social systems.

Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.