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Self-mastery is a long and exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2342 No fancy title for this one. I intended to write this post last week, as it was one of the weekends bordering …

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By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering … an iron curtain between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, Totalitarian Propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals. – Aldous Huxley …

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[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose The …

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery Everywhere I look these days, it seems the cool thing is now to be the critic. And, to be fair, I can understand why. There’s no shortage of media out there, what with the increasingly …

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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. Gustav Mahler Well, I made it. Can’t say everything’s where I want it to be, but I’m not entering this next week even further behind. Plus, aside from trudging through the swamp that is work, there’s nothing that’s going to capture my nights …

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