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Revolution Speeds Evolution
June 22, 2009 – 11:01 am | No Comment

While listening to BBC news coverage of Iran on the radio this morning, the words “Revolution speeds evolution” came to my head. At the time, the words fit the current Iran situation very well and time will tell whether there is a revolution, a new election, or crushed hopes and lives. Since it rang in [...]

Christopher Spranger, from The Effort to Fall
February 4, 2008 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
Christopher Spranger, from <u>The Effort to Fall</u>

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It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life.
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You say nothing could be further from the truth. I say nothing could be further than truth.
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Sophistry is what reason becomes when it is employed for the purpose of reconciling us to life.
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So much havoc has [...]

The Gist of It:
January 13, 2008 – 3:12 pm | No Comment
The Gist of It:

Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor
The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
- You are free and that is why you are lost.
- In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across [...]