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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
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“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”
― Dancing Ledge
― Dancing Ledge
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
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“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756]”
― Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Adams Papers)
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756]”
― Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Adams Papers)
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Jai’s 2025 Year in Books
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