"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well."

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Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.

Louis Kronenberger

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“'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God' (Jn. 20:!7). He is our Father by grace through the Spirit of adoption (Rom. 8:15), but His Father by nature on account of His divinity. Similarly, He is our God as the creator of our human nature, but His God by reason of the dispensation whereby He became man. He made these distinctions so that we might understand the difference.”
“Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity”
“The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.”
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”
“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”
“I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.”
“I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.”
“The main thing is to be yourself and not allow peopleÂ toÂ disturbÂ you to be different, because they want youÂ to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times youÂ throw a mistake due to your ownÂ personalityÂ orÂ your own character or from interference that you getÂ along the way then you learn, and the main thing isÂ to learn from your mistakes and get better.”

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