Marc
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« Reply #170 on: January 01, 2010, 01:40:AM » |
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Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas by Martha Egan
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
Ζω τόσα χρόνια σ`αυτό τον κόσμο και δε γνώρισα ούτε ένα κακό άνθρωπο παρά μόνο τον εαυτό μου.
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« Reply #171 on: January 02, 2010, 05:42:PM » |
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Onto Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair. Kind of interesting, neat photos from then in the middle of the book.
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"Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up in the first place." - Robert Frost
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« Reply #172 on: January 07, 2010, 01:29:AM » |
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Recently finished:
Biography of Jack Daniel (Yes, THAT Jack Daniel)
Christianity and Economics by Christopher Hollis
Presently reading:
Charlemagne by Douglas Woodruff
Three Musketeers by Dumas
William the Conqueror by Hilaire Belloc
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« Reply #173 on: January 07, 2010, 11:33:PM » |
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The Fourth Part of the World, which is about the map which named North and South America as well as concepts of geography dating back the the Middle Ages. So far, it's really neat... 
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Baudelaire and Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects
"I'm a practicing Catholic; I'm practicing until I get it right." Martin Sheen
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Marc
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Non in commotione Dominus
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« Reply #174 on: January 12, 2010, 03:07:AM » |
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Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Fr. John Croiset, S.J.
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
Ζω τόσα χρόνια σ`αυτό τον κόσμο και δε γνώρισα ούτε ένα κακό άνθρωπο παρά μόνο τον εαυτό μου.
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« Reply #175 on: January 12, 2010, 05:26:AM » |
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the front of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds CD.
he looks just like Earl.
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Nick Cave always make me think of Leisure Suit Larry from the old Sierra games. If you were a good Catholic back then, you shouldn't know what I'm talking about lol. |
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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« Reply #176 on: January 12, 2010, 08:10:PM » |
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Ireland in the 20th Century by Tim Pat Coogan
Michael Collins -same author
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“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
Hillaire Belloc
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« Reply #177 on: January 13, 2010, 10:54:PM » |
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Afonso de Albuquerque, the Caesar of the East by T.F. Earle and John Villiers.
One of the greatest portuguese characters of all time and a decisive political figure for the 16th century's portuguese expansion in India and Southeast Asia. He was the second viceroy of the Portuguese State of India. A loyal subject of the Crown and a fierce crusader against the Infidel. It's noteworthy to mention that he planned to steal Muhammad's body from Medina in order to blackmail the muslims to leave the Holy Land. Inspiring stuff!
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #178 on: January 13, 2010, 10:58:PM » |
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Walker Percy's The Moviegoer... again.
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The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes;
she is tolerant in practice because she loves.
The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe;
they are intolerant in practice because they do not love. Timorem Domini docebo vos. |
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« Reply #179 on: January 13, 2010, 11:24:PM » |
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Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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"Tenthly, one should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk, whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round."
George Orwell
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