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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” – James Joyce in “The Dead”

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Social scientists adopt one of four main ontological approaches: realism (the idea that facts are out there just waiting to be discovered), empiricism (the idea that we can observe the world and evaluate those observations in relation to facts), positivism (which focuses on the observations themselves, attentive more to claims…

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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 – 1958)

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – G. K. Chesterton

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. – G. K. Chesterton

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“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.” – Stanely Kubrik

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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

There’s a saying that, "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." The sentiment is found in proverbs. There probably is something to it. I’ve been late to bed and late to rise and very busy last several months, and now I’m sick. I…

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Clive Staples Lewis on Repentence

C. S. Lewis said that "[Repentance] is not something God demands of you before He will take you back…; it is simply a description of what going back is like." From the Faith Alone Journal’s article on The Theology of C. S. Lewis.

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Extrodinary Selfishness and Debasement of Life

From an article in the LA Times this little excerpt nearly bowled me over:Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst…

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From a Comment on Chromasia:

Chromasia posted a pleasure doing business / 10 November, 2005 and John from Shots Photography started a discussion. I’m not sure what the heart of the discussion was about, but I posted some thought about photography and the medium that I felt were interesting enough to repost here.I’m terribly confused…

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Edgar Alled Poe on Poetry

"To recapitulate, then:-I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth." by Edgar Allen…

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Company Fierce by Chromasia

Posted on Chromasia.com in regards to his Company Fierce portrait.“I think what I liked immediately with this photo is the color of her skin. Its accentuated by the rest of otherwise monocromatic elements in the photo. Also, the almost blownout highlights of her dress give her a pure quality. I’ve…