“It is not the man of the world who appreciates the world.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News December 5, 2001, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July, 2007)
“Why is experience so useless? One explanation is that most people are lazy and would rather not learn from the past. Instead, they hover in a gauzy present, one that has as little connection to what happened 10 years ago as to 10,000 years ago.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Post December 29, 1998
In my latest Epoch Times column I weigh the morality of giving Ukraine a particularly effective weapon that’s particularly dangerous to civilians.
In my latest National Post column I goggle at the sense of entitlement of our Governor General and leftist politicians.
“The Duke of Sussex’s ghostwriter has defended Spare from claims of inaccuracies and historical errors... J.R. Moehringer... shared a quote from Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir, which said: ‘The line between memory and fact is blurry, between interpretation and fact. There are inadvertent mistakes of those kinds out the wazoo.’ Moehringer tweeted the Duke’s words: ‘Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does ... and there’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.’... More errors have emerged since the publication of the book earlier this week, such as the Duke’s recollection of where he was when he was told that the Queen Mother, his great-grandmother, had died.”
National Post January 13, 2023
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“You don’t have to be able to walk on water; you just have to be able to float.”
Another reader-submitted entry in their “Thought du Jour” contest, from Robert Anderson, in Globe & Mail November 4, 2002
“The Sacred Texts: Canadian perspectives on the Bible, Qu’ran, Torah, and their place in modern society/ Majority see positive lessons in Bible, but many Christians believe it has dated views on sexuality, gender”
Subject line/hed and deck on email teaser from the Angus Reid Institute December 12, 2022.