Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Quote of the Day (Bernard Bailyn, on the Realism and Innovations of Revolutionary War Leaders)

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“It is difficult to convey the energy and imagination that went into the constitutional creations of the Revolutionary generation— the fresh...
Monday, July 3, 2023

Movie Quote of the Day (‘The In-Laws,’ With Alan Arkin in Full-Blown Panic Mode)

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[ After a series of misadventures Dr. Sheldon Kornpett, along with his soon-to-be in-law, CIA operative Vince Ricardo, finds himself facing...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Casie Dodd, on Johnny Cash and Her Faith Experience)

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“Over time, [Johnny] Cash…came to speak to me on a deeper personal level. During this same period, I was working my way—with some reluctance...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Quote of the Day (Wendell Berry, on Community Health)

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“I believe that the community—in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures—is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the he...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Flashback, June 1963: Brian Wilson Takes Studio Helm for Beach Boys

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As the eldest of the musical Wilson brothers and co-songwriter of their first original hits, Brian Wilson was already the center of attenti...

Movie Quote of the Day (‘Out of Sight,’ As a Bank Robber and Marshal Chat About What Might Have Been)

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Jack Foley [ played by George Clooney ]: “You sure are easy to talk to. I was thinkin', if we met under different circumstances...if y...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Quote of the Day (George Orwell, on Totalitarianism and ‘The Continuous Alteration of the Past’)

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“From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, ...