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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego. CONFLICT

Others sick with guilt and not knowing where to turn or what to do went berserk. These were the Weathermen and their like: they took the grand cop-out, suicide.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.' Friedrich Nietzsche                        Ah!

Ulysses, which was an extremely difficult book by James Joyce. Every single other child in the class, when asked what they would like to do more of, chose creative writing.

life, surely. And even doing that, the least wrong of

hold it, then, as an axiom — or else I'd stop writing right now — that our calling is to follow Jesus in our context rather than to retrieve and re-create his context in our world. What

foreignness that gave him the ability to see the distinctiveness of America.

In fact, Luther says the "great idol Mammon" has anointed "three trustees—rust, moths, and thieves"—that ought to remind us of the temporality of possessions.12

the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Jesus is the gospel-shaped King. There is no other messianic story like the one Jesus told and lived.

In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Second, emotivism is actually a theory of the use of moral language, not of its meaning.13 The emotivist has jumped from a theory of use to a theory of meaning without any justification for that leap.

A second appeal of relativism comes from the way it is presented. Frequently relativism is presented as though it and its opposite, absolutism, are the only two valid alternatives.

A third weakness of relativism is that cultural relativism as a normative system cannot be drawn from the observations of the cultural relativist.

It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's the fear of not writing well; something quite different.

the saving question was always, "How will this impact the user experience?

Lame visions have no integrity: they don't offer a plan, and they don't express an opinion.

much of the boring machinery identified as management has more value for the manager's ego than the quality of work produced.