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Michael Kelley

@mk / mk.tumblr.com

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The language of worldview tend to imply, to paraphrase the Catholic writer Richard Rohr, that we can think ourselves into new ways of behaving. But that is not the way culture works. Culture helps us behave ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Andy Crouch, Culture Making, pg. 64

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Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

Paul Graham - "Hackers and Painters"

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

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Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.

David Brooks

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I think she was going to eat me if I didn't get that next spoonful of nectarines in quick enough.

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Getting some love from my girls.

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I'm so lame. 14 years after they hit it big I finally find out that I like Oasis. In another 6-7 years I should be ready to discover Coldplay.

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An ancient axiom of politics teaches that a spoiled people invite despotic control. Their failure to maintain internal discipline is followed by some rationalized organization in the service of a single powerful will. In this particular, at least, history, with all her volumes vast, has but one page.

Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

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Your theology will not always move you in the direction of obedience because your use of theology is governed by the condition of your heart.

Paul Tripp

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Wer spricht mit mir ist mein Mitmensch; wer singt mit mir ist mein Bruder. The one who speaks with me is my fellow human; the one who sings with me is my brother.

German Proverb

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Oh, if I could only pray the way this dog watches the meat! All his thoughts are concentrated on the piece of meat. Otherwise he has no thought, wish, or hope.

Martin Luther

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More Joanna.

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I saw Joanna Newsom at Benaroya Hall last night. Amazing. Just amazing.

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There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

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