Motley heirloom tomatoes. Mary wasn’t sure about the green, so cooking it separately.
Theodore Leavitt, “Marketing Myopia”, Harvard Business Review, July–August, 1960.
Balloon Flower
Barzun, “Trains and the Mind of Man”, Holiday, February 1960
If we fall seven times, we must pray at least seven times.
Alain on "The Cult of the Dead"
In the same way that we do not think as we would like to, and the course of our thoughts depends principally on what we see, hear and touch, it is quite reasonable to give ourselves certain sights, in order to give ourselves the reveries that are attached to them. This is how religious rites have a value. But they are only a means; they are not the end; so we should not visit the dead in the same way that others listen to the Mass or say their rosary. —Alain
Hmm, “should not,” which is to say listening to the Mass is the end, saying the rosary is the end?
Alain’s brevities assume shared knowledge. —George Steiner
Alain’s brevities assume shared knowledge.
A basket full of books. —quoted by David Mills, “Grim, pessimistic, unsentimental wisdom to live by from the ancients”
To enslave is to reduce to slavery or to make a slave of. To buy or own a slave does not enslave the slave, and the person who does either is not an enslaver.
A notable thing about the parables is that there are many tests, but for each person there is just one test. Find out what your test is.
A couple we know are visiting Athens.
Hate should not be a crime.
Yet this is in thy favour, thou dost abhor the ways of the Nicolations, as I, too, abhor them. —Ronald Knox’s translation of Apocalypse 2:6. Other translations.
In “a woman and her doctor,” “woman” means a woman with child.
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” —Declaration of Independence
“Endowed by their Creator,” but when? Most probably not after birth, like fairies' gifts or according to the mother’s choice.