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"This one should count for, like, 5 books on my "books I've read this year" count-thingy." — Jun 09, 2015 01:55PM
"This one should count for, like, 5 books on my "books I've read this year" count-thingy." — Jun 09, 2015 01:55PM
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"Well, I apparently had a shitload of office supplies, kitchen gadgets, unneeded cleaning supplies, and generic "stuff." I think we're still on pace to get rid of about 55 to 60% of our stuff (based on our keep vs. give-discard piles)." — Jun 03, 2016 01:47PM
"Well, I apparently had a shitload of office supplies, kitchen gadgets, unneeded cleaning supplies, and generic "stuff." I think we're still on pace to get rid of about 55 to 60% of our stuff (based on our keep vs. give-discard piles)." — Jun 03, 2016 01:47PM
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable.”
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“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.”
― The Orthodox Way
― The Orthodox Way
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