- When discussing his goal of promoting diversity in the Navy, it was predicated on not having a force that all look the same, act the same and think the same, for "A predicatable force is a defeatable force"
- One more note on the Navy: "We defend a democracy but we are not a democracy". Simple but thought-provoking.
Epictetus: three-stage strategy to think stoically
I knew of this but hadn't really thought of it as a "thing" until I saw a reference in Julia Annas's essay "Epictetu...
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There are two things that can help with complex challenges without knocking your head against the wall: "rules of thumb" and the e...
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Reading a review of Reluctant Saint in First Things. Ruined physically by blindness, malaria, cancers, and leprosy, and unable to govern...
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I recently stumbled on this lyrical Southern poet from a mini-biography in a 1960's issue of The Georgia Review made up principally of l...