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A decade or so ago, I lived in Bahrain, and my address was incredible. It was something like Villa 9, compound 2207, road 2755, block 327, Adliya, Manama, Bahrain. As of the day I'm writing this review, Road 2755 is not listed as such on Google Maps,
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in 2025 I did the New Testament, one chapter per day with weekends off, and it was ok. Decided to do the whole bible in 2026 with YouVersion, and it was 4 or 5 chapters per day, pulled from different places, and Psalms and Proverbs are completely rep
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"I think it's actually more because I'm already repeating Psalms/Proverbs." — Jul 15, 2026 07:27PM
"I think it's actually more because I'm already repeating Psalms/Proverbs." — Jul 15, 2026 07:27PM
“A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Sure, cried the tenant men,but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours….That’s what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it."
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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