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“Golf is what the ball does.” In other words, the flight of the ball tells the teacher where the student’s club was at impact.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom.
–The Grand Inquisitor”
― The Brothers Karamazov
–The Grand Inquisitor”
― The Brothers Karamazov
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY, I BUY BOOKS; IF ANY IS LEFT I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 1466-1536 This Group was founded in September 20 ...more
Bob’s 2025 Year in Books
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