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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
“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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“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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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.”
― The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
― The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
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