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Category Archives: quotations
Selections from the Battle Cry of Freedom
Quotes Austere and humorless, Davis did not suffer fools gladly. He lacked Lincoln’s ability to work with partisans of a different persuasion for the common cause. Lincoln would rather win the war than an argument; Davis seemed to prefer winning … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, James McPherson, quotations
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Selections from Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine
But while I learned this early, it was much later that I learned something else, dimly and slowly, through my study of history, mythology and, well, people: that every culture, whether it knows it or not, is built around a … Continue reading
Favorite Quotes & WWW Wednesday
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “Favorite Quotes from Books“, which is ridiculously unfair. I am a quote-hoard. But while I despair of winnowing out ten standouts from my collection, here’s the WWW. WHAT have you finished reading … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday + Thoughtful Quotes
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “Quotations That Make You Think”. But first, WWW Wednesday! WHAT have you finished reading recently? Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear. WHAT are you reading now? Multiple things, but I’m focusing … Continue reading
Selections from Living in Wonder
Review to follow tomorrow.
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Tagged Christianity, Orthodoxy, quotations, religion, Rod Dreher
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Selected quotations from The Anxious Generation
Gen Z became the first generation in history to go through puberty with a portal in their pockets that called them away from the people nearby and into an alternative universe that was exciting, addictive, unstable, and—as I will show—unsuitable … Continue reading
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“[In Kurt Vonnegut’s egalitarian dystopia Harrison Bergeron,] anyone with a high IQ is required to wear an earpiece at all times that buzzes loudly every 20 seconds or so with a variety of noises designed to interrupt sustained thinking, thereby … Continue reading
Crown-shy
Mosscap pointed. “Crown shyness is so striking, don’t you think?” Dex had no idea what Mosscap meant. “Sorry, what’s striking?”“Stop,” Mosscap said. “Look.”Dex sighed, but they hit the brakes, put their feet on the paving below, and looked up. Mosscap … Continue reading
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