Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, August 22, 2003

Quote o' the Friday

"People say of marriage that it is boring, when what they mean it that it terrifies them: too many and too deep are its searing revelations.... They say of children that they are brats.... when what they mean is that the importance of parents with respect to the future of their children is now known with greater clarity.... than ever before.

No tame project, marriage. The raising of children.... brings each of us breathtaking vistas of our own inadequacy."

-- Michael Novak
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