Friday, July 31, 2015

The heart has its rationalizations, which reason did not abjure

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"Probity, Sir, does not permit me to deny the force of these arguments.  I am persuaded that he is a dishonest man [who] treats wi...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

"'Welcome, men'"

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     With a yell he woke up.  A space boat had nudged against his crystal hull, and was now bobbing a few feet away.  It was a solid metal o...

Quiz for Sara

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Pseudo-Luther on "the conversion of the purse"

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"There are three conversions necessary:  the conversion of the heart , the conversion of the mind , and the conversion of the purse ....
Monday, July 27, 2015

"'Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood—but because I would not bend to the marriage!'"

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     Saint Thomas More as quoted by Robert Bolt in  A man for all seasons:  a play in two acts, Act 2 (New York:  Vintage International, Vi...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

"One should want to be freed from a passion not in order to escape the torment it inflicts, but because one truly hates the passion itself."

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"One should want to be freed from a passion not in order to escape the torment it inflicts, but because one truly hates [the passion] i...
Friday, July 17, 2015

"whoever despises the discipline of the church, so as to abstain from warning, correcting, censuring, and yes also separating from participation in the sacraments the evil persons in whose sins he does not participate and whom he does not applaud, sins not with the evil of another, but with his own."

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"For this reason, too, whoever despises the discipline of the church, so as to abstain from warning, correcting, censuring, and yes al...