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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs

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This is what thinking is: not the decision itself but what goes into the decision, the consideration, the assessment. It’s testing your own responses and weighing the available evidence; it’s grasping, as best you can and with all available ...more

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“Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, brilliance, female-liberation, feminism, humour

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“Here we are again! Bless me, I believe I said that before—but after all you don’t want Christmas to be different each year, do you?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters From Father Christmas

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“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

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“We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”
― G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

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