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The Theology of the Westminster Standards: Historical Context and Theological Insights

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The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh

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I realize that I never did quit thinking that Adam Ferguson was, by virtue of having the strongest arm in third grade, a better person than I was. I never did quit thinking that, because other people felt the same way, Adam had a power over ...more

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“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.”
― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

tags: french, language, nero-wolfe, prejudices

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“At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called “leaders” is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.”
― Kerry Patterson, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

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“But if you focus your time and energy on learning without trying to understand, you will not only not understand, but also probably not learn. And the effects are cumulative.”
― Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

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“Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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“I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a walking-stick like an umbrella because they both go into the umbrella-stand. Yet they are as different as a battle-ax and a bootjack.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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