December 2009
36 posts
What is a good person?
1. A good person is honest with himself as well as with...
– Peter Kreeft, Before I Go, “#9. What Is ‘A Good Person’?”
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect...
– J. B. Priestley
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with...
– Philip Pullman
Old writing is like an old girlfriend: the memory is better than the reality.
– Rands, A Creative Soundtrack
Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own hearts, and bring to our...
– Jane Austen
Geeks are system thinkers. We see the world as a very complex but knowable...
– Rands, Gaming the System
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead...
– Jim Hightower
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
– Arthur Conan Doyle
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above...
– James Cameron
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
– Jane Austen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
– Fulton Sheen
The Cross put into practice is self-discipline and the mortification of pride,...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 383
“Mobile Mobile” by James Théophane Jr. →
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...
– Jane Austen
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This is woot-worthy.
The Known Universe, by the American Museum of... →
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Awesome.
The Known Universe, by the American Museum of Natural History
Best in HD, full screen, in a dark place.
No real good is ever done without some cost and pain to the doer.
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 383
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
– Fred Allen
One button to merge all duplicate contacts →
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Awesome, at long last!
Posted by Dominik Marcinski, Software Engineer Managing a big address book can be a challenge, so it’s no surprise that the top request for Google…
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Wow.
Today the sunrise was like this, and it was a good opportunity to test my new 5D Mark II. Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 24-70, GND Hitech 0.9 HE 32°38'44.66"N…
What Matters Now: get the free ebook →
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Short, inspiring read.
Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up.
Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the…
Only mediocrity survives. Those who call black black, and white white, are...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 118
Our Lord went into the soul, and laid hold of thought, and branded even the...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 116
What the Catholic fiction writer must realize is that those who question [the...
– Flannery O’Connor
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
– Robert Frost, Mending Wall
ubi amor est, ibi est oculus
– Latin, Where love is, there is insight.
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss...
– G.K. Chesterton
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to...
– G.K. Chesterton
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature,...
– G.K. Chesterton
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at...
– Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical...
– G.K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition...
– G.K. Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised...
– G.K. Chesterton
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
– G.K. Chesterton