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16th Street Forum: January 2008
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Monday, January 21, 2008. One tyrant is much like another. Leo Tolstoy on Czar Nicholas I:. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 2:32 PM 0 comments. Links to this post.
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16th Street Forum: May 2006
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Wednesday, May 24, 2006. Coffee Houses and Salons. There was even a push to make clergymen come to them so that people could ask them questions which they could not do in churches. Posted by Joan Porte @ 3:32 PM 0 comments. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Move on House Party Thursday. Dear MoveOn member,. Http:/ www.moveon.org/r? At our n...
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16th Street Forum: Isaiah Berlin on FDR
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Thursday, November 06, 2008. Isaiah Berlin on FDR. After the election, Scott McLemee, who blogs for Inside Higher Ed. Asked some folks for ideas about what the new president should read. Series - it's like mind candy.). The full essay is available online. From the Southern Cross Review. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 12:23 PM. Comments: Post a Comment.
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16th Street Forum: May 2008
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Thursday, May 29, 2008. On making fun of bad guys. In an interview with Roger Errera in 1974, later captured in the New York Review of Books. Hannah Arendt cited this comment by Berthold Brecht:. Once again, we see that the best response to political sleaze is ridicule. Cross posted from From the Rachel. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 5:00 PM 0 comments.
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16th Street Forum: And Susan Collins displays impeccable timing!
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Monday, April 27, 2009. And Susan Collins displays impeccable timing! Posted by posaune @ 9:11 PM. Comments: Post a Comment. Links to this post:.
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16th Street Forum: January 2007
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Monday, January 29, 2007. Lessons from Thucydides - Part 3. In my previous posts here. I commented on the interesting similarities between debates during the Peloponnesian War, as recounted by Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War. As in the last post, the debate is between Cleon and Diodotus, in Book 3, Chapter IX. Consider therefore: ...
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16th Street Forum: November 2007
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Wednesday, November 21, 2007. We Move On; We Do Not Move On. Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function? Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, 1984. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 7:13 PM 0 comments. Links to this post. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 7:05 PM 0 comments. Links to this post.
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16th Street Forum: March 2007
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Friday, March 23, 2007. Why do "honest public servants" need to testify under oath? China Miéville, British socialist politician and author of weird fiction:. History]is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible. Posted by Lee J Rickard @ 1:54 PM 0 comments. Links to this post. Saturday, March 10, 2007. Although...
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16th Street Forum: October 2006
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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others. (Ibn Gabirol). Friday, October 20, 2006. A message from Freepress.net, passed on from Joan Porte. The Federal Communications Commission announced on Jan. 7 that the U.S. Solicitor General will not appeal the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Prometheus Radio Project vs. Federal Communications Commission. To the Supreme Court. Join thousands of other ...