The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"If you believe 'gifted' students
are really just the fortunate winners
of the gene lottery
or fated products of competitive evolutionary development,
why would you call them gifted? 
You should call them lucky."
Perry Glanzer
"Fair Enough" in Touchstone, September 2005

"Pluralism sounds so humble, so reasonable, so nice,
but it is arrogant, and absurdly so."
Peter J. Leithart
"Pluralism's Pride" in Touchstone, September 2005

"No civilization has been built
without that foundation of male camaraderie
directed toward civic ends: 
not Athens, not Rome, not Japan, not India."
Anthony Esolen
"Work Friends" in Touchstone, September 2005

"On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend:
the love between man and woman in marriage;
the love between a mother and her child;
and the camaraderie among men,
a bond that used to be strong enough
to move mountains."
Anthony Esolen
"A Requiem for Friendship"
in Touchstone, September 2005

"It's easy to tell who your real friends are.
They stab you in the front."
Unknown
Heard in the editor's office, September 2005

"Surely, the first and only safe control is self control.
A man unable to govern himself cannot wisely be entrusted
with the governance of anyone else - a family, for instance."
Patrick Henry Reardon
"As It Is Written" in Touchstone, September 2005

"You can't always trust an apple,
but you can usually trust a banana."
Mother Angelica
First aired in 1992, EWTN.  September 2005

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