“Not then having learned the philosophy of yielding to disproportionate obstacles...”

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail

“No God, No Hope - Know God, Know Hope.”

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“They seem to have opened it up a gear in the second period.”

Announcer on ESPN March 15, 1987 re the Edmonton Oilers.

“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”

G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000

“Even my own fears that Mr. Deeds would be too provincially American – too ‘apple pie’ – proved unfounded. ‘O-filling,’ ‘doodling,’ and ‘pixilated’ were as rib-tickling in Ulan Bator as they were in Allentown, Pa. Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

“Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answer. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: ‘Lieben und arbeiten’ (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.”

Erik H. Erikson, quoted in Brian Lee Crowley Fearful Symmetry

“A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.”

Cyril Connolly, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2009

“Hot weather is a classic example of being able to manufacture a problem that, in a very real sense, one may choose not to make a problem simply by ignoring it.”

Charles Murray in National Review March 30, 1992