@goinggodward Brings to mind:
"Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large."
George Steiner
Talk about personality! Ever get the impression that today's cars are emblematic of a herd mentality?
Last photo: Left to right: Toyota, Nissan, and Kia. How appropriate! they are all gray in color.
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
@JMays56@notgaetti No way he breaks every record in the books. As stated he was in decline before ALS. He hit 49 HRs in 1936 and 37 following year. Even assuming he hits 50 a year from then on he doesn't top Ruth.
@trottskyathome Brian Lamb:
"If you didn't become what you are, what would you be, what other profession?"
James Grant:
"I would be a professional scholar of Samuel Johnson. I am a Johnsonian. And I believe the best book in the language is Boswell's Life of Johnson."
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."
Samuel Johnson - The Rambler, No. 68
"But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do . . . And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists."
Father Mapple - Moby Dick
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