Recommended by R> Members Dulce et Decorum Est –Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, More
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George Herbert (1593-1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England, writing poetry in English, Latin, and Greek. Last year we discussed his poem Easter, split into two parts by composer Ralph Vaughn Williams in his 1911 work Five Mystical Songs. Herbert also wrote Easter Wings, published posthumously in The Temple (1633). As […]
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Recommended by R> Members “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” – Ben Shapiro
The reaction to the release of the Muller Report reminded me of this quote. There seem to be a large number of people whose feelings conflict with the facts presented. As a result, many have rejected the facts in favor of their feelings.
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Recommended by R> Members “I don’t think I know a single judge who has allowed religion to interfere with their jobs. I think if you start the day on your knees, you approach your job differently from when you start thinking that someone anointed you to impose your will on others.” — Justice Clarence Thomas
I once wrote a story featuring a monarchy in the far future. In it, the main character spoke at length about the vital nature of religion in such a society. Without faith, the king answers to no one in life or death. There is no law above him, no judgment.
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Recommended by R> Members “Socialism is a house and clothes all set for you, a carpenter’s plane to round rough faces, to make everyone identical.” — Victims of the Khmer Rouge
Since ancient times, Khmers have taken a keen interest in moral guidance and counsel of their elders. The Khmers also prided themselves as being clever and they took great pleasure in cleverly composed discourses. The use of words and witticism, rhyming, riddles and rapidly formed punning and spoonerisms was and still is considered to be the Khmer national habit. And the Khmer Rouge made use of this deeply rooted Khmer tradition to indoctrinate, control, and terrorize the people during their reign of terror, in the form of slogans, sayings, and songs.
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Enter the amount from line 3 above on line 1 of the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet or Schedule D Tax Worksheet if you use either of those worksheets to figure the tax on line 4 above. Complete the rest of that worksheet through line 6 (line 10 if you use the Schedule […]
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Recommended by R> Members Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
Yes, the man who said this is Bobby Kennedy, a man disliked by the right and who should be distrusted by the left. (Robert Kennedy worked for Joe McCarthy and at the time apparently liked the work.) But when someone is right about something, pay attention, perhaps especially if you dislike the person.
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Recommended by R> Members Let a thousand flowers bloom. Who said that? Lots of people have repeated this saying over the decades, but it is a misquote. The original quote, from Mao Zedong (Tse-tung), in 1956, was: More
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La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants. Translation: The revolution is like Saturn: It devours its own children. Pierre Vergniaud, French revolutionary These were the last word of a French revolutionary, a talented orator and advocate of liberty, equality, and fraternity. He, like many other revolutionaries, ended up having a date with […]
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Recommended by R> Members Cormac McCarthy, from The Road:
MoreHe got up and walked out to the road. The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again. What time of year? What age the child? He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. (p. 220)
Recommended by R> Members “On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’…I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
— Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), p. 67
Computers. When designed properly, they do precisely what they are told. They do not interpret, they need to be explicitly instructed on what exactly to do. However, when you get them going, they give you incredible capabilities. During WW2, people would have sacrificed armies to obtain the computing power in your cell phone. Even a simple flip phone has more power than all the computers in existence at the time. Charles Babbage could have revolutionized history, had manufacturing been up to the task — William Gibson’s novel The Difference Engine posits just such a future. (It was the beginning of the Steampunk genre)
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Recommended by R> Members Spring One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. The ice in the pond at length begins to be honey-combed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk. Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually melting […]
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March was another full month of Quote of the Day posts, with many making the Main Feed. There are many open dates on the Quote of the Day April Sign-up Sheet. We make it easy to “Start a Conversation” by including tips for finding great quotes. Get into Spring by sharing your favorite quote and […]
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Recommended by R> Members “There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court.” — Clarence Darrow interview in Chicago (April 1936)
You may have heard similar versions of this quote from numerous people who feel that they have been wronged by the law. However, consider the source of this quote. Clarence Darrow is a famous (infamous?) progressive lawyer, noted for defending controversial defendants and participating in the Scopes trial. Yet here, he is declaring that justice does not exist. What exactly was his goal as a lawyer, then?
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… and miss signing up for the April 1 Quote of the Day post and beat @arahant to the punch. It’s the easiest way to start a fun conversation on Ricochet. We have many open dates next week and throughout April, and we’ll even give you tips for finding great quotes. Don’t miss out and […]
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Recommended by R> Members MoreWhen the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”.
— Mikhail Bakunin, 1873, Statism and Anarchy
We’ve had a long, hard winter, and Spring has started. But you can be productive on a rainy day by drafting a Quote of the Day post, the easiest way to start a fun conversation on Ricochet. Many Quote of the Day posts make the Main Feed, and some even garner over to 150 comments. We’ll […]
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Recommended by R> Members “When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn’t value truth cannot survive.” – Ben Shapiro It does not seem to matter what the crisis de jour, political flashpoint, or cultural conflict is — immigration, education, terrorism, gun rights, vote fraud, whatever. It always seems to center on appeal to emotions, […]
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