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By someone who knew him much better than me: "I think Garret lived such a mentally sharp and active life for so long – still writing his regular economics column in the Irish Times to the end – because he was just so curious and endlessly interested in and enjoying the people around him."
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"He was *my* taoiseach."
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"The majority of men are in no persuasion bigots; they are not willing to sacrifice on every vain imagination that superstition or enthusiasm holds forth, or that even zeal and piety recommend, the certain possession of their temporal happiness ... "If anything can tend to revive and keep [fanaticism] up, it is to keep alive the passions of men by ill usage. This is enough to irritate even those who have not a spark of bigotry in their constitution to the most desperate enterprises; it certainly will inflame, darken and render more dangerous the spirit of bigotry in those who are possessed by it. "
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-20-2011
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, by Kyle Harper
Second paragraph of third chapter: Aristides had come to Rome, much as Galen would a generation later, an aspiring young provincial ready to try his…
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My books of 2018, and a poll
I read 262 books this year, the seventh highest of fourteen years that I have been keeping count, so squarely in the middle. (Full numbers: 238 in…
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Monday and December reading wrap-up
Monday Reading Current The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton Heartspell, by Blaine Anderson Last…
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