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Mass production is for the masses....
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Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...
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The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it....
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The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and some...
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There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors....
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We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natural and the supernatural, for the whole of the natural order is so directly linked with God that its conservation must be regarded as a kin...
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If you have the desire, you are halfway there....
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The end never really justifies the meanness....
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E. E. Cummings's experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. He was applauded by such various poets as Ezra Pound, ...
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He without fear is king of the world....
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Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its vast comprehensiveness and truth, and makes us hide ourselves from its dread sanctity, is brought down into the life of a brother, ... and we...
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Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith , Ph.D. ( 1890-05-02 – 1965-08-31 ) was an influential early science fiction author, known best for his space opera Lensman and Skylark series. Sourced Triplanetary Triplanetary is the first installment in the Le...
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention....
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The English statesman Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959), was viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931. He later served as foreign secretary and as ambassador to the United States during World War II. Edward Frederick...
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1911-1977 British Economist EF. Schumacher was an economist who argued that Earth could not afford the cultural and environmental costs accompanying large-scale capitalism. His book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered was n...
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent...
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized....
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Sectarianism is limitation. Some truth taught in Scripture, some part of the divine revelation, is apprehended, and the heart responds to it and accepts it. As it is dwelt upon, expounded, defended; its power and beauty increasingly influe...
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Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. Any attempts to hide behind the excuse that it is too difficult, when what we mean is that its word is too hard for u...
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E. Howard Hunt was a major figure in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Hunt, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer as well as a prolific fiction writer, coordinated the White House "Plumbers" un...
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General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every ma...
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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning....
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Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life....
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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. It's not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours that count. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. It's easier ...
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Love is a friendship set to music....
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One of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel, Welcome to Hard Times, and Ragtime have been made into movies) an...
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An impressive figure in children's literature, E. L. Konigsburg has the distinction of being the first and possibly only author to have had two books on the Newbery Honor list at the same time. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Fran...
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Feast of Mark the Evangelist There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about the nature of the transformation which our Lord's body underwent in his resurrection, and if we know anything about physics and biology we are...
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Dr. E. Lee Spence (born 1947) is a German-born American underwater archaeologist and shipwreck historian. Unsourced Genius is the ability to look at things simply. from a talk given by Spence before the Charleston chapter of Mensa Internat...
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies...
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. Anyone can escape into sleep,...
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During the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recognition and authority after World War II when, except fo...
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The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'....
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The number e, like the number pi, is a useful mathematical constant that is the basis of the system of natural logarithms. Its value correct to nine places is 2.718281828... The number e is used in complex equations to describe a process o...
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The American biologist Edward O. Wilson (born 1929) is a leading authority on ants and social insects and an influential theorist of the biological basis of social behavior. He promotes the controversial discipline of sociobiology, which h...
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Many scholars regard E. P. Thompson, along with the Welsh Marxist and founder of the British Cultural Studies group Raymond Williams, as pioneers in the field of cultural studies. A Marxist historian and lifelong political activist, Thomps...
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The Hungarian-born American physicist Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995) formulated symmetry principles and, together with group theory, applied them in atomic, nuclear, and elementary particle physics. On November 17, 1902, Eugene P. Wigner w...
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The word "Comforter" as applied to the Holy Spirit needs to be translated by some vigorous term. Literally, it means "with strength." Jesus promised His followers that "The Strengthener" would be with them forever. This promise is no lulla...
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E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One The founding fathers took many steps into making our home, the United States of America, a place of opportunity. It may seem that it took many years before America became a united nation under one co...
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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not....
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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security....
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford....
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear....
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by....
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Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, ...
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their ...
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An ironist and humorist par excellence, the prolific storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann occupies a prominent place in the canon of nineteenth-century European literature. He is regarded today as the influential, eccentric genius of German Roman...
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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance....
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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise....
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