The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Daily Archives: September 11, 2024
Film History 101: The Maltese Falcon – The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
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Book Recommendation
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Five American Universities
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The most perfect constitution of antiquity was without contradiction that of Sparta, and Sparta has not left us a single line of its public law. It justly boasted of having written its laws only in the hearts of its children.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
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Most ancient pagan belief systems were built around ritual and magic, coercive practices intended to achieve a beneficial result. They centered the self. The revolutionary contribution of monotheism was its insistence that the principal concern of God is, instead, how people treat one another.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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