“the observable phenomenon that trees don’t grow to the sky.”
John Dizard (“Gekko”) in National Review June 2, 1997 on the perils of projecting trends forward
“When the locusts come, they devour everything.”
Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz. Catcher in the Wry
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“Chinese proverb” quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 9, 2008
“reversing, surely, the order of nature by treating their bodies as means of gratification and their souls as mere encumbrances. It makes no odds, to my mind, whether such men live or die; alive or dead, no one hears of them. The truth is that no man really lives or gets any satisfaction out of life, unless he devotes all his energies to some task and seeks fame by some notable achievement or by the cultivation of some admirable gift.”
Sallust The Conspiracy of Catiline
“the immortal phrase ‘a comprehensive background of ignorance,’ a condition I suppose I exemplified at the time.”
This quotation comes from somebody named Zimmerman and the quoted phrase is from George Edison, his tutor at Trinity College, University of Toronto; alas my note to myself on its origin is otherwise incomplete.
“Is the normal human need, the normal human condition, higher or lower than those special states of the soul which call out a doubtful and dangerous glory? Those special powers of knowledge or sacrifice which are made possible only by the existence of evil? Which should come first to our affections, the enduring sanities of peace or the half-maniacal virtues of battle? Which should come first, the man great in the daily round or the man great in emergency? Which should come first, to return to the enigma before me, the grocer or the chemist”
Adam Wayne in G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Recently I had a chat with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel of the CHP on Canada’s true history, an inspiring tale of freedom defended and entrenched over centuries. If you doubt it, I invite you to watch my documentaries.
You can find other links here (Brighteon) and here (YouTube).