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"""If a giraffe drank coffee, it would be cold by the time it reached the bottom of his throat." A. Nony Mouse.
"America could be reminded that it takes a certain kind of people, living certain habits of the mind and heart, to make the machinery of democracy work so that the net result is human flourishing, not human degradation." George Weigel "To See Things as They Are" in First Things, February 2015.
"You may not be interested in the culture war, but the culture war is definitely interested in you." Rod Dreher "Christian and Countercultural" in First Things, February 2015.
"Some of us will live to see the day when orthodox Christians will be considered exotic antiques, at best, and threats to decency, at worst -- potentially harmful individuals who must be driven out of public life." Rod Dreher "Christian and Countercultural" in First Things, February 2015.
"You have to push back as hard against the world as the world pushes against you." Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"The words 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' are surrogate words used to express moral judgments That we're not supposed to make. How are students to know what's 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' when we banish the concept of 'right' and 'wrong' from discussion?" R.R. Reno "While We're At It" in First Things, February 2015.
"The internet is frying our brains. The rise of the internet has not made us better readers; it has made us shallow readers." Arthur W. Hunt "A Girl with a Palantir" in Touchstone, January/February 2015.
"You can argue with a sane man, advising him that his principles are wrong. You can evangelize a sane society. But today we meet insanity, or, perhaps, subsanity. People can no longer reason from principles." Anthony Esolen "Mission Nary Impossible" in Touchstone, January/February 2015.
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