Culture
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Tools of Titans
“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress-stress this is healthful and the stimulus for growth.” ~Tim Ferriss A year ago Christmas, my wife surprised me with the book, Tools of Titans, by Continue reading
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Self-Made Men
From the speech, “Self-Made Men,” 1859 ~Frederick Douglass | Reposted from Art of Manliness That there is, in more respects than one, something like a stoicism in this title, I freely admit. Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men. That term implies an individual independence of the past and Continue reading
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Better sense of history: Billy Zoom’s list of required listening
Editor’s Note: Though Christmas is over and Santa is, no doubt, resting and preparing for next year, this list might make for a good goal for the coming year…to listen to history or build up your personal collection. Thunderstruck | Repost | – Billy Zoom, guitarist from X (According to Billy, this is only a partial Continue reading
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Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show’s producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead animator. The discussion concerned Schulz’s insistence about including a New Testament scripture reading of the Christmas story from the Bible. The scripture reading was to Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~William F. Buckley Jr.
“Industry is the enemy of melancholy.” ~William F. Buckley Jr. Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~Mark Twain Continue reading
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Chesterton, Tertullian and C.S. Lewis on Arguments
Originally posted on Mere Inkling Press: With civil discourse in such short supply today, it may be beneficial to consider some wisdom from the past about disagreeing calmly. If you’re a thoughtful person, and you interact with other rational people, it’s inevitable that you will sometimes disagree. These differences of opinion are not bad things,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Paulo Coelho
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.“~Paulo Coelho Continue reading
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