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| e6048d6 | It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights," Washington wrote. "For, happily, the Government of the United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| da28df7 | In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think"." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 8d74410 | I wish that the founders had had the foresight to hang on to and enshrine another one of Independence Hall's chairs, the one that Benjamin Rush mentioned in a letter to John Adams about how Thomas Jefferson objected when his colleagues in the Continental Congress considered a fast day, which Jefferson pooh-poohed as too religious. Rush reminded Adams, Who knows what happened to that particular chair. ... But it might have been a more helpf.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| deaee4a | Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of religion runs parallel to political democratization. The king of England, questioning the pope, inspires English subjects to question the king and his Anglican bishops. Such dissent is backed up by a Bible full of handy Scripture arguing for arguing with one's kIng. This is the root of self.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 6d18384 | I've encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I've never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy's coming home. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 0bc6566 | The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| ebce8e4 | Happy talk must die | Steve Krug | ||
| 0861be3 | Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity. | entomology virtue | Gordon S. Wood | |
| 04fd342 | Love all of God's creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love animals, love plants, love each thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin tirelessly to perceive more and more of it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an entire, universal love. | Brian McLaren | ||
| 8263070 | If changing strategies doesn't help, you can try to change the game. And if that's not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself. | Brian Christian | ||
| 186186a | It must grieve God's heart when he sees Christians fighting about whose doctrine is right; he doesn't see denominations, he sees one big glorious bride. When Christians argue about doctrinal issues, all he sees is carnal people acting like children. All that prideful, controlling religious crap is what drives young people away from churches, and it has to go. Much of the world's population is under the age of eighteen, and we have to bring .. | Brian "Head" Welch | ||
| 7a5db03 | Here in the second beatitude, Jesus is making an important announcement to those who, instead of finding a means of avoiding personal pain and shared sorrow, have allowed themselves to be sculpted by pain and sorrow. Jesus seems to be saying that it is those who have given up being comfortably numb through shallow contentment and have instead engaged in the real work of grief--for there is much in this world to grieve over--who are the ones.. | Brian Zahnd | ||
| d73aa6d | There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence. | grief grieving self-help | Brian M. Holmes | |
| f7aba18 | Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. | Brian Zahnd | ||
| e507005 | Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds. | hope odds | Ivo Andrić | |
| 00b0f18 | Sto vise samujes i cutis o sebi,sve ti je plici u ludji razgovor tvog susjeda. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 04009f1 | Jer, lakse je podneti i najneprijatniji pogled nego oci koje uporno gledaju pored vas. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| a777a98 | Zivot je neshvatljivo cudo, jer se neprestano trosi i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji cvrtso- kao na Drini cuprija. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| c306053 | Sta vredi sva ta huka, kad evo dode ovakvo vreme pa covek propadne tako da ne moze ni da izgine ni da zivi, nego trune kao direk u zemlji i svaciji je, samo nije svoj. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 1d6238d | Pa ipak se zivi.Jos samo katkad biva da me prevlada bol,pa se savijam kao crv na zemlji i pritistem lice u suskavu,hladnu travu i izgovaram u crnu zednu zemlju rijeci koje nemam kome da kazem.Jos samo katkad gresno zudim smrt i zalim se nevidljivom Bogu,sto sam udaren nepodnosivim prokletstvom,da najbolje misli i najbolja osjecanja prosipam nevideno i zaludno kao pelud na kamen,iskre u tamu,jauk u vjetar | Ivo Andrić | ||
| adc5529 | Nikad nisam voleo preteranu osecajnost ni ta polusjajna, sumnjiva stanja duha u kojima nas uobrazilja tako lako odvodi na na svoje pogresne i jalove puteve. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 9a310a1 | it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome. | misfortune triumph | Ivo Andrić | |
| ffb8666 | Tek jesen je pokazala kako su plitkog korena i kratkog veka bile moje obmane. I ne samo jesen. Jelene je nestalo iz svih mojih godisnjih doba. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| bc20e73 | The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they should, do not amount to anything in the end and the heads that think thus do not remain long on their shoulders. For it is not human desires that dispose and administer the things of this world. Desire is like a wind, it sifts the dust from one plac.. | god-s-will great-deeds | Ivo Andrić | |
| 83618b5 | He said that it always struck him with surprise that while men in buying an earthen or glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at her. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| c7eb1dd | For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy. So that if the founder of a State should establish any one of these three forms of Government, he establishes it for a short time only, since no precaution he may take can prevent it from sliding into its contrary, by reason of the close resemblance which, in this case, the virtue bears to the vice. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| e3dab45 | Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times--letting pass infinite other examples--a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near oneself, to honor his house with it, and to be able to have it imitated by those who delight in that art, and how the latter then strive with all industry to represent it in all their works; and seeing, on the other hand, that th.. | classics history politics | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 2eff06e | m ymkn ltnbw' b@ ymkn `lj@ bshwl@, 'm dh ntZrn ly' n tdhmn lmkhTr, fsySbH l`lj mt'khran `n mw`dh wtstS`y l`l@ | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| a87b221 | There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| e6a9efb | But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| a2d9d27 | The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| f4e7707 | And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. | politics problems | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 886c321 | And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 2e9a861 | A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor. | hatred loved respect | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 45b82b1 | men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation, which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment, which never fails. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 6e678d8 | For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 442189e | The Swiss are well armed and very free. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| c56deee | This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 6551d89 | A prince ought to have two fears one from within on account of his subjects the other from without on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies and if he is well armed he will have good friends and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy and even should affairs outside be disturbed if he has ca.. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 662ce32 | Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished. | political-philosophy politics shrewdness strategy | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 1b9551e | It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 2933e10 | And he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 4815577 | He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| d5148d7 | n nSyH@ lmsd@ l~ l'myr Gyr lHkym ln tjdy, l dh kn hdh l'myr Gyr lHkym qd tkhl~ `n dhth wsm nfsh lrdl ysyTr `lyh tmman fy kl l'mwr, wkn hd lrjl dh Hkm@ jyd@, wfy hdhh lHl@ skwn Hkmh SlHan. lkn hdh l'mr l yTwl, l'n hdh lHkm syjrdh mn lwly@. | نيكولا ميكيافيلي Niccolò Machiavelli |