“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
G.K. Chesterton in Where All Roads Lead quoted in Gilbert! magazine January/February 2002
“Percentage of Americans who say vacationing leaves them tired: 54”
Harper’s Index in Harper’s magazine October 2020
In my latest National Post column I say the U.S. has entered a new political era in which it would promote healing if one side could admit there are very good reasons for people to support Donald Trump, for instance their distaste for identity politics, and the other side could admit Trump is an awful person and a nasty President.
“All purposeful human action is self-interested, in the crucial sense that it aims at goals accepted by the individual, using means evaluated by the individual. Greed or selfishness, by contrast, is a matter of claiming for the self more than is due.”
Paul Heyne “The Concept of Economic Justice in Religious Discussion”
“Adrienne, who was something of an intellectual snob, believed that most people lived their lives on a superficial plane. Most people thought of their lives, if at all, as a series of almost disconnected events, like a tale told by a child: this happened, then this, then this.”
Ed Ruggero 38 North Yankee
“Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings
“Unconditional surrender of our enemies [is] the signal for the greatest outburst of joy in the history of mankind. Holiday rejoicing is necessary to the human spirit.”
“Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in his May 8 Victory in Europe day broadcast” quoted by Ted Barris in National Post May 6, 2005