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The problem, Augustine came to believe, is that if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. To believe that you can be captain of your own life is to suffer the sin of pride. What is pride? These days the word "pride" has positive connotations. It means feeling good about yourself and the things associated with you. When we use it negatively, we think of the arrogant person, someo..
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Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. And yet the most frequent one hundred words account for 60 percent of all conversations. The most common four thousand words account for 98 percent of conversations. Why do humans bother knowing
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To believe that you can be captain of your own life is to suffer the sin of pride. What is pride? These days the word "pride" has positive connotations. It means feeling good about yourself and the things associated with you. When we use it negatively, we think of the arrogant person, someone who is puffed up and egotistical, boasting and strutting about. But that is not really the core of pride. That is just one way the disease of pride pr..
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the church of those who are redeemed by high-school reading lists. She
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The moderate can only hope to be disciplined enough to combine in one soul, as Max Weber put it, both warm passion and a cool sense of proportion.
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Evan Thomas writes that Ike told his grandson, David, that that smile "came not from some sunny feel-good philosophy but from getting knocked down by a boxing coach at West Point. 'If you can't smile when you get up from a knockdown,' the coach said, 'you're never going to lick an opponent.' "16 He thought it was necessary to project easy confidence in order to lead the army and win the war:"
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list of different spheres of her life: reflection, creativity, community, intimacy, and service.
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