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Language creates
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Bosnian Crisis - Wikipedia
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“I’m Gonna Punch Him Out”
“I hope he comes, I’m gonna punch him out… I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m gonna punch him out, I’m gonna go to jail, and I’m gonna be happy.” — Read on heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-13-2022
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Greek East and Latin West - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_East_and_Latin_West This makes so much sense, so much so that I'm surprised I'm just now coming across this term for the first time, which leads me to wonder if that's really true or if my memory
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Worlds Colliding
“those moments of terrible cognitive dissonance when I am forced to speak to people from two disparate parts of my life at once.” This is one of the worst feelings. I felt like two separate worlds were colliding with each other, different spheres of energy enveloping me, and everything started
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Listen
“When you start to use your voice as music, you are allowed to demand attention. You are allowed to say, “Listen.” Excerpt From: May, Katherine. “Wintering.” Penguin Publishing Group, 2020-11-10. Apple Books.
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Stones at Trees
“We should be like trees that give fruits to those who throw stones at them.” This is something that people do? Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.
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Cannot Speak The Truth
“The psychology of ordinary man could even be called the study of lying, because man lies more than anything else; and as a matter of fact, he cannot speak the truth. It is not so simple to speak the truth; one has to learn how to do it, and sometimes
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Remembering Remembering
“you realize that what you remember from childhood are only glimpses of self-remembering” I wonder if this why some childhood memories are weird, like you can almost see yourself. Excerpt From: P. D. Ouspensky. “The Fourth Way.” Apple Books.
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We Imagine Ourselves
“So we imagine ourselves, really. We are not what we imagine ourselves to be.” We create ourselves from our imaginations? Excerpt From: P. D. Ouspensky. “The Fourth Way.” Apple Books.
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Druidic Calendar
“Druids follow the eightfold Wheel of the Year,” he says, “which means that we have something to do every six weeks. It’s a useful period of time—you always have the next moment in sight. It creates a pattern through the year.” “Four solar festivals, linked to solstices and
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Augustan literature - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustan_literature I had never heard this term before, despite 20 years in the English Department. As an undergrad, which may help explain it.