“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates, quoted in Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century (and about 10 million other places)

“The decades ahead will almost certainly be unstable and unpredictable ones…”

The Editors teasing to “findings… from a diverse group of analysts at the RAND Corporation” that take up much of The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2003 issue

“People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat.”

“adage, quoted in the New York Times” in “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail September 22, 2008

“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”

“Anson Dorrance (1951-), coach of women’s soccer at the University of North Carolina” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 27, 2011

“We cannot begin by forming independently a theory of how God is knowable and then seek to test it out or indeed to actualize it and fill it with material content. How God can be known must be determined from first to last by the way in which He actually is known.”

Thomas Torrance in 1969, quoted approvingly in John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist

“he immatures with age”.

Harold Wilson (of Tony Benn) quoted in The Economist July 11, 1992

“something has to be overcome before we can cut up a dead man or a live animal in a dissecting room…. We do not look at trees either as Dryads or as beautiful objects while we cut them into beams: the first man who did so may have felt the price keenly, and the bleeding trees in Virgil and Spenser may be far-off echoes of that primeval sense of impiety. The stars lost their divinity as astronomy developed, and the Dying God has no place in chemical agriculture.”

C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man

“‘I cannot predict the future,’ as one of my favourite historians says, ‘but I can tell you what isn’t going to happen.’”

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen June 10, 1999