“These people have only two categories, and one of them is Nazis.”—Jon Harris, Conversations That Matter Podcast
“So like a painted battle the war stood/Silenced, the living quiet as the dead,/And in the heart of Arthur joy was lord.”—Tennyson, Idylls of the King
“Feeding on the air of entitlement of fading upper-class institutions that accomplish “little with a lot” of other people’s funds, the Harvard initiative reflected the increasing inebriation of elite American education. Focusing on stopping the world is full of books; But there are multitudes which are so ill written, they were never worth any man’s reading: and there are thousands more which may be good in
their kind, yet are worth nothing when the month for year or a progress, barring new power plants, dismantling chemical facilities, mobilizing against Israel, and other reactionary pursuits, Ivy institutions are pursuing the fancies of a declining intellectual and business elite, full of chemophobic nags and Luddite lame-ducks quacking away on their miasmic pools of old money as the world whirls past them.”—George Gilder, Life After Google
“Noise: interference in a message. Any influence of the conduit on the content: an undesired disturbance in a communications channel. Noise is commonly the distortion of content by its conduit. A high-entropy message (full of surprise) requires a low- entropy channel ( with no surprises). Surprises in the signal are information; surprises in the channel are noise.”—George Gilder, Life After Google
“We've got to beware of folks who can go edit online works and somehow come up with the “Queen James Bible” or something.” “Because e-books can be edited, reading them is like petting a cat—you enjoy doing it, but you don’t trust it.”—NSA Rhet. Recitation
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”—James 1:21, KJV
“The world is full of books; but there are multitudes which are so ill written, they were never worth any man’s reading: and there are thousands more which may be good in their kind, yet are worth nothing when the month, or year, or occasion is past for which they were written.”—Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind
“Atheists—the prototypes of fools”—AD Robles
“…sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good,/That we may lift the soul, and contemplate/With lively joy the joys we cannot share.”—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
“Blue hair is humanity’s check engine light.”—Isaac West, Rhetoric
“He walked like his left leg was embarrassed to be part of him.”—Talia Fenner, Rhetoric
“Taking advice is like trying to drink straight from the milk jug--once you know it's bad, it's too late."
“If we say ‘the peace of God none will demur—but will everyone understand? The use of right words does not guarantee right thoughts!”—J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“I commend courtesy in everyone, specially in an academic or man of letters, but courtesy should not be so intent upon its duties towards men as to forget piety and its duty towards God.”—William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture
“Be ye, therefore, of good cheer. We have a cause (believe me) good, firm, invincible. We fight against men, and we have Christ on our side; nor can we possibly be vanquished, unless we are the most slothful and dastardly of all cowards.”—William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture
“Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world-worldly, with sensualized, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly and pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.”—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.”—Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
“…with a thousand gossamer gnats circling about them in lieu of the Furies…”—Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
