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His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.


C.S. Lewis


#modernity #education

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.


John Ciardi


#nothing #sobriety #wrong

Where's Quinn?' "He went around the other side." Connor replied. Stealth mode." A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment. Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, being a lunatic, you mean.' "That's stealth mode for him.


Alyxandra Harvey


#funny #hunter #lunatic #quinn #stealth-mode

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, ‘Don’t imagine that because we don’t check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don’t check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists.


N.T. Wright


#modernists #new-testament #sbl #imagination

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.


Michael Palin


#comes #i #i think #modern #now

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.


Paul Asay


#fatherhood #inspiration #parenthood #rolemodeling #inspirational

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?


Barry Deutsch


#inspirational #mothers #role-models #imagination

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.


J. L. Austin


#come #commonly #done #going #happen

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.


Chuck Palahniuk


#life #modernity #originality #life

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.


St. Anthony the Great


#christian #coptic #modernity #orthodox #saint