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Monday 01 October, 02007

by Matthew Bartlett @ 7:42 am

ANZ funds milling of native trees in Tasmania [via frogblog]

Lin Yutang said

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and nervous. They steal them of their inalienable right of loafing and cheat them out of many a good, idle and beautiful afternoon.

Pope Benedict, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, said

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb. Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by the clever excuses which apologetics has come up with to justify the dark sides which, sadly, are so frequent in the Church’s human history.

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