Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland
And I could not help but wonder if this triumphalism was born out of refutation—out of a need to prove that one’s people are not “animals” who have “ruined every country they ever entered.” I’d seen it all my life in the invocations of great kingdoms and ancient empires—a search for provenance and noble roots.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
In everything but disposition they were admirably taught.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - Volume I, Chapter II (2)
postmodern secular culture tends to under-emphasize the importance of responsibility thereby generating a strange contradiction. On teh one hand we have almost unlimited freedom to choose. On the other, when things go wrong it is rarely our fault.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The first word written on the warrant of plunder is Africa.
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The ambitious person considers another’s actions, praise, and applause to be his own happiness; the pleasure-seeker, his own sensations and feelings; but the wise person, his own actions.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Denial makes a poor lifestyle but a pleasant lunch.
Beth Moore
How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?