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Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: ‘I always felt sorry for her children’
I can’t claim to have any political feelings about Margaret Thatcher’s death, and am only linking to the article to give credit where it’s due. But I have always found this sentiment true in my own experience and the way Russell Brand articulated it resonated with me.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
— Mister Rogers
”— Sometimes dissertation research is fun.
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— George R.R. Martin (via sarisafari)
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— Azar Nafisi (via bebemoon)
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— Jana, on how fast the year has gone by
— From “Erotic magic in medieval Europe,” by Richard Kieckhefer, an article I had to read for my class tomorrow. It goes on to say that this particular bit of magic was probably written “in jest,” which actually just made me really happy because it means people in the middle ages cracked jokes.
Jana: “I could have sworn we had a menu from that place… where’d it go?”
Me: “I burned it.”
Super Conservative Flatmate, with a knowing look: “Are you sure it wasn’t for your weed, Eva?”*
“But what if both men are good? Do you stay with the one you’re with, or break up with him to be with the one you love? Or do you just cry and pray your death comes quicker?”
“That’s not how life works. In real life you’re stuck with the person, even if they’re mean. Movies lie! My dad hates movies, by the way.”
*I don’t smoke.
The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn’t want war. Yeah, there’s an arms race, but it’s Britain who’s leading it. So, why does no one admit this?
That’s why. The dead. The body count. We don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault ‘cause so many of our people died. And all the mourning’s veiled the truth. It’s not “lest we forget,” it’s “lest we remember.” That’s what all this is about — the memorials, the Cenotaph, the two minutes’ silence. Because there is no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
”— Irwin, The History Boys (via)
Thank you to all who have served, who are serving, and who have sacrificed your lives for your country.
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“This sensational claim generated the most extensive and fiercely fought controversy ever known in the history of monastic studies….”
Marilyn Dunn, “Mastering Benedict: monastic rules and their authors in the early medieval West”
Which came first, the chicken or the egg The Rule of the Master or the Rule of St Benedict? I love history fights.
