Saturday, May 2, 2015

'''There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. It is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.'"

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     Albert Einstein, Lincoln University, 3 May 1946, as quoted by J. W. Woods, in "Lincoln U. confers degree on Einstein,"  Balt...
Friday, May 1, 2015

"at your nod"

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. . . we who by the death of your Son have been redeemed, to the glory of his resurrection are, at your nod, [immediately] summoned fo...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

"I will spew you out of my mouth."

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"God, who by the light of thy truth guidest wanderers back into the path of righteousness, grant that all who are accounted Christians ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

"For the whole body of those rightly handling the word of truth, the manifold wisdom of the word of God, we especially beseech [thee. Lord have mercy]."

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"Pro universis recte tractantibus verbum veritatis, multiformem Verbi Dei sapientiam peculiariter obsecramus.  [Kyrie eleison.]" ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

"As for schoolteaching, it is so strenuous that no one ought to be bound to it for more than ten years."

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". . . wen einer hatt schul gehalten, ungeferlich ein 10 jar, so mag er mit guttem gewissen daruon lassen, den die arbeit ist groß, und...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Why I lack a "perfecta volunta"

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"every inclination or movement is perfected when it achieves its end or attains its term.  Hence there is only a perfected will when, g...

A distinction lost on the contemporary mind

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"when the exterior act  is good or bad [1] solely because of its order to the end, then the goodness or badness of the act of the will ...