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Tag Archives: quotations
A reading on the Presidency: A Man Divided?
The president really has two jobs. The first that has received is that of his managerial role, his responsibility for handling the nation’s affairs. Coupled with that is his role of personifying the nation and becoming thereby the unifying factor … Continue reading
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Ad Astra Per Aspera
A reading from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, set to utterly perfect music. We were hunters and foragers — the frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still … Continue reading
"They cannot conquer forever!" said Frodo
Lewis expressed a similar thought in his nonfiction, The Weight of Glory: “A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one … Continue reading
Imaginative Cosmopolis: A Reading
From Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, Fatemeh Keshavarz In faint voices that reach us from across the globe, there is the recognition of our shared humanity. In laughing at the same joke, feeling the same pain, or … Continue reading
Words from little America
“There are many, many Americas — there’s a televised America, one that consists of The View and Katie Couric and Jenner — there’s that America. But then there’s the America I experience, the America you never see on television. It’s … Continue reading
Selections from Musonius Rufus
These are a few passages from Ben White’s modern interpretation of Musonius Rufus’ lessons and fragments. Prologue:Of everything that exists, God has put some in our control, some not. He has put the noblest and most excellent thing in our … Continue reading
Desolation Laughing
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. … Continue reading
On Free Will
Suppose for a moment, that we define a virtuous act as bowing in the direction of Mecca every day at sunset. We attempt to persuade everyone to perform this act. But suppose that instead of relying on voluntary conviction we … Continue reading
Much to Hope from the Flowers
(Wild Roses, Rick Hansen) Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. … Continue reading
Dawn of Battle
Four hundred years before, near a village called Azincourt, an English army had waited to do battle with the French, and on that October night it had rained and rained and the sky had echoed with thunder. It had been … Continue reading
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