“OH: Can you believe that somebody is willing to pay you for what is inside your brain (and you get to keep the brain!)?” — @summertomato
“If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.” — Baltasar Gracian
What to Write Down During a Class Lecture -
Something for the students or auditors among us.
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — (via conciselearning)
(Source: 2012happiness, via conciselearning)
What the Sunshine State Will Illuminate - National Review Online: “Five key factors in what happened this weekend in the South Carolina primary, and five key factors in what will occur eight days from now in the Florida primary”
Good stuff, and all worth keeping in mind.
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” — Francis Bacon
“The pen is mightier than the sword but I always keep a sword handy in case my enemy can’t read.” — @IamEnidColeslaw
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” — Maimonides
The Other Reason Europe Is Going Broke - NYTimes.com -
How can Brussels excite a generation of ambitious young people — the ones who will determine Europe’s future success — when too many of them are offered low-wage, short-term work in stagnant industries to pay for the far more generous benefits their elders receive? How can Europe compete if its youth experience the flexibility while the old get the security?
Why I’d rather be here than there.
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Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's rhetorical shifts -
What else can a man without an identity do, a president who never really was?
/headshake That’ll leave a mark.
Owning your own civilization -
(via Instapaper)
Finally, a sane discussion of electability and the GOP primaries.
(via Instapaper)
The terrible dilemma of the Obama-supporting Catholic blogger, about to be thrown under the bus… Does nobody read Aesop’s fable of the frog and the scorpion?
Sixties Language Made Mass Boring -
Fr. Barron hits the spot on how to see the new Mass translation. (via Instapaper)