May 2013
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April 2013
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When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.
– ‘Wonder’ by R.J Palacio
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March 2013
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and...
– Winston Churchill
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Hold dear to your parents, for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
– Emily Dickinson
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Adventure is just bad planning.
– Roald Amundsen
January 2013
4 posts
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at...
– John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
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December 2012
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss...
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you...
– Mark Twain
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of...
– Helen Keller
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Any Human Heart
I have just finished watching this series and I found it to be brilliant.
In particular I thought the ending was beautiful, poignant and moving….I cried, and cried and cried.
I’m going to miss you Logan………..
If a violent criminal knocked on your front door and said he’d like some...
– Lisa Bloom - Swagger
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Incessantly repeated claims can sometimes be mistaken for facts.
– Thomas Sowell
November 2012
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Subjection in minor affairs breaks out every day and is felt by the whole...
– Jonah Goldberg - The Tyranny of Cliches
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won’t get much...
– Woody Allen
Whining about how high unemployment is ‘unjust’ is dangerously...
– Jonah Goldberg - The Tyranny of Cliches
October 2012
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Re-primitivized man lives in an eternal present tense, in the dystopia of the...
– Mark Steyn
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around.
– Ronald Reagan
Oh, what a relief to fight, to fight enemies who defend themselves, enemies who...
– Robert D. Kaplan
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Whereas rural poverty is age-old and almost a “normal” part of the...
– Robert D. Kaplan
There is nothing less civilized than rewarding evil and thus guaranteeing more...
– Andrew C. McCarthy
Civilization is not an evolution of mankind but the imposition of human good on...
– Andrew C. McCarthy
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which...
– Robert Heinlein
September 2012
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We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for...
– J.G Farrell, The Seige of Krishnapur, 1973.
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A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.
– Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1812.
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I stand astonished at my own moderation
– Robert Clive, 1773
August 2012
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July 2012
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