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@PhilipTerzian @ABC DEI : Don’t Expect Intelligence

@ABC Out of Her Depth Dept (cont'd)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her colleagues' handling of the Louisiana voting rights case may have compromised the court's impartiality in political matters. abcnews.link/XxS5GKg

@DonPJenn To read is to remember things you never knew…..

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham

@DonPJenn Perhaps a calendar, affixed to the wall of our mind, that simply says NOW

@DonPJenn There tends to be more impressible wisdom in a simple declaration… than a lengthy explanation

"He may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind." Samuel Johnson on Aphorists

@DonPJenn We’ve forgotten what it sounds like….

@DonPJenn If it weren’t for corruption and fallibility, there’d be no need for integrity and humility… the requisites of virtue.

"We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always fallible." Samuel Johnson

@DonPJenn First came reality, then the imagination…

John Rogers Cox - Gray and Gold

@DonPJenn A committee is a place where initiatives go to die…

"A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain." Robert Heinlein

@duncanreyburn They’re hidden behind their abundance …

There are profundities everywhere. Look for them.

@DonPJenn I frequently worry about chronic anxiety…

Coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances. William Osler, MD

@DonPJenn Prohibition isn’t needed in the absence of possibility….

Whenever you see "No Exit" it means there's an exit. Hugh Kingsmill

@duncanreyburn Time and Space, running out of both…

Oh look, your mutual is reading a great book right now. It’s so great you’ve got to buy it and, wait, this other mutual is reading another must-read life-changing book. And this one too. And this one too, holy cow, who has time to read all this!?! Boom, you’re bankrupt.

@DonPJenn Reality is best seen through the eyes of an artist….

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything.” Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)

@DonPJenn The more unintelligible the explanation, the more dubious the problem…

"Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible." H. L. Mencken Also attributed to Mencken: "A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light looking for a black cat that is not there."

@DonPJenn Our humanity requires more than reason…

"Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego." Richard M. Weaver

@DonPJenn @Chase_Steely @alancornett A cemetery is a society of equals…

@Chase_Steely @alancornett

"It behooved Russell Kirk to acclimate himself by studying Southern history and Southern literature. At Duke, in 1940-1941, were two leading professors in those fields, both of them much published and nationally known: Charles Sydnor in history, Jay Hubbell (the founder of the quarterly American Literature) in the latter discipline. Kirk, as was his way, saying little in their seminars, Dr. Sydnor and Dr. Hubbell were considerably surprised by the papers he submitted to them; and Sydnor would express his astonishment at the master's thesis Kirk produced. Without anybody's advice, Kirk had chosen for the subject of his thesis the politics of John Randolph of Roanoke, the most interesting and unusual man ever to be a power in the Congress of the United States. At the end of the academic year, in 1941, Kirk's study of Randolph's thought, his master's thesis, was accepted by the University. Perhaps no other master's thesis in American history, written in a space of eight months, has enjoyed such long life in print, even unto this very day." from The Essential Russell Kirk

@SBucci Central casting’s version of a human oddity, harbouring a malevolent idiot …

An irrelevant person.

@DonPJenn @pensandpoison He is Everyman that speaks to each…

@pensandpoison "His (Shakespeare) persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated… In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species." Samuel Johnson

The mark of a great work of literature is the ability to comment on the universal by way of the particular.

@DurhamWASP The majority often forgets that it’s comprised of individuals…

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.” Bertrand Russell, born 18th May 1872

@richard_landes @Naila_Ayad Evil needs a host…

@Naila_Ayad two of the greatest useful idiotic infidels in the world. pathetic hate-mongers masquerading as white saviors.

Do you know these two women? Do you respect them?