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Flannery
In the south we have, in however attenuated a form, a vision of Moses’ face as he pulverized our idols. -Flannery O'Connor
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Milton
the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven -John Milton
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
As we are
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. -The Talmud
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
To know
To know and not do, is to not know -a zen saying
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
The real malady
The real malady is fear of life, not of death. - Naguib Mahfouz
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Asimov
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Art
All art is a revolt agains man's fate. -Andre Malraux
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Honesty
We are hard on each other and call it honesty, choosing our jagged truths with care and aiming them across the neutral table. The things...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Time and chance
…but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Count Tolstoy
If a man, without exercising effort and without altering his standpoint on reading, hearing, or seeing another man’s work, experiences a...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Reptiles of the mind
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. —William Blake
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Aurelius
When facing whatever happens outside your control, be calm; when taking actions for which you are responsible, be fair. In other words,...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Auden
The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like,...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Asking
Many things are lost for want of asking. —English proverb
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Crossed the line
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land....
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. -Helen Keller
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Once only
Everyone once, once only.Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Rilke
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Water
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Â Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,nothing can surpass it. Â The soft...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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