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The Stories of Bernard Malamud

by Bernard Malamud

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The Stoics Illustrated

by Paul Scade

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Letters: Summer 1926

by Boris Pasternak

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Book cover for The Sacred Project of American Sociology

The Sacred Project of American Sociology by Christian Smith

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Why should we trust sociology to tell us the reliable truth any more than any other human social institution or tradition? On what grounds is sociology uniquely immune from the debunking powers of its own method?

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“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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“Also, we ought to work in this time of grace; for we are GOD’S bought thralls, with the price of His dear-worthy Blood, to work in His vine-yard: and yet He doth promise us reward, if we do with good-will that which, as a debt, we ought to do.”
― Richard Rolle, The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises

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“And S. Gregory says:—“Our life is like a man in a ship; sit he, stand he, sleep he, wake he, ever he gets thitherward where the ship is driving with the force of the weather. So we, in this short time, whatsoever we do, we drive ever to our end.” And our enemy”
― Richard Rolle, The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises

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“Macarius said also, ‘If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

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