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Archive for July, 2010

Unintended Beauty

July 26th, 2010 | Author: Norma Allen

SunflowerI was driving north on Highway 6 on a recent midsummer morning. It was about 7 a.m. and the sun was already heating up the day, in the midst of what could be classified as an unbroken heatwave. Suddenly, I saw to my left a vast sea of shining yellow gold.

A field of mature sunflowers was basking in the morning light, its myriad faces smiling directly at the drivers passing up and down the road. Read the rest of this entry »

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"The Christian religion made its appearance as the common disturber of the peace of the world, because it put an end to the tranquil influence of custom, authority, credulity, sentiment, and imagination; [and] forced upon men the disagreeable task of examining evidence, searching records, and proving all things."

- Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately, 1856

Le nombre de ceux qui pensent est excessivement petit, et ceux-là ne s'avisent pas de troubler le monde.

-- Voltaire,
Lettres Philosophiques

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