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“The young don’t know that experience is a defeat and that we must lose everything in order to win a little knowledge.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“There are some angry and desperate people in the Church. That is because they hear only God’s command, only His demands, because they remember only this much about Jesus Christ. They cannot see Him as a gracious and good God; they see Him only as a Boss or a Tyrant. There is something else for which you must remember Him, without which remembering your lives can’t be great or wonderful—His love, His infinite love, His inexhaustible, prodigal, wonderful love, high as the sky, deep as the sea, love that moved Him to the cross to suffer for His enemies, love that still loves Him to forgive when we have wronged Him and one another.”
― Tell it on the Mountain: A Collection of Sermons
― Tell it on the Mountain: A Collection of Sermons
“While the Reconstruction struggle ensued in Washington and across the South, Edward A. Pollard, wartime editor of the Richmond Examiner, wrote his long manifesto, The Lost Cause, published in 1867. Pollard issued a warning to all who would ever try to shape the memory of the Civil War, much less Reconstruction policy. “All that is left the South,” wrote Pollard, “is the war of ideas.” The war may have decided the “restoration of the union and the excision of slavery,” declared Pollard, “but the war did not decide Negro equality.”39 Reconstruction was at once a struggle over ideas, interests, and memory.”
― Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
― Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
“People who are in the business of hating the relatively new-fashioned use of “begs the question” hate it vehemently, and they hate it loudly. Unfortunately, subbing in “raises the question” or “inspires the query” or any number of other phrasings fools no one; one can always detect the deleted “begs the question,” a kind of prose pentimento, for those of you who were paying attention in art history class or have read Lillian Hellman’s thrilling if dubiously accurate memoir.”
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
“But within those numbers, there are other stories. For one, the statistics show a sharp and notable drop in life expectancy over 1932–4, across a wide range of groups. Before 1932, urban men had a life expectancy at birth of 40 to 46 years, and urban women 47 to 52 years. Rural men had a life expectancy of 42 to 44 years, and rural women 45 to 48 years. By contrast, Ukrainian men born in 1932, in either the city or countryside, had an average life expectancy of about 30. Women born in that year could expect to live on average to 40. For those born in 1933, the numbers are even starker. Females born in Ukraine in that year lived, on average, to be eight years old. Males born in 1933 could expect to live to the age of five.6 These”
― Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
― Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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