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“Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
― The Man Who Knew Too Much
― The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”
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“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”
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“Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.”
― Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
― Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“History and literature rebuke our self-sufficiency; that's one reason why we ought to study them. It's not so much that people of olden times were the finest exemplars of higher humanity, for they too fell short of their ideals, as must all who aspire to higher things--that's what ideals are for. It's that we have abandoned those ideals once animating our civilization, refusing to learn them anew with each generation. We have assumed their transfer to be automatic. We have not indeed jettisoned the hope and drive that keep us working for a better world (that's the good news), but we have forgotten to cultivate ourselves as individuals.”
― Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
― Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
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651 books
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282 books
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575 books
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970 books
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41 books
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