W. Clay Jackson
@mydocjackson
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doctrine & doctorin’
Arlington, TN
Joined February 2010
One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school.
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On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton
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“The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by. He was so quick. There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say
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“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.” — Albert Einstein
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"It takes 15,000 liters of water to produce 1kg of beef!" Sounds horrifying. Except here's what they don't tell you: Those 15,000 liters breaks down as: 94% "green water" (rainwater that falls on pasture) 4% "blue water" (actual irrigation) 2% "grey water" (recycled water)
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This exists. It is real.
This exists. It is real. It is legitimate. 29 other teams had a chance to win one.
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I am actually the lead and corresponding author on the most cited research paper of this person's career. Someone told me that today, and I verified it. The claim that her work has had any substantial effect on breast cancer is a dramatic overstatement. Like much of what’s
Harvard researcher Joan Brugge says her work has the potential to prevent breast cancer, but she was notified last spring that her federal funding was terminated. “It was just like a gut punch. My knees buckled, and I had to sit down,” she says.
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The library at #RichardBurton’s home in Switzerland. To mark the date of his birth 100 years ago today. When asked where he regarded as home, he replied, “Home is where the books are”.
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Wowzers. @ReviewApostolic
The Book Boat Women of the Mississippi 1904 In 1904, when river towns along the Mississippi had little access to schools or libraries, a small group of women brought knowledge to the water. They were known as the Book Boat Women educators, widows, and dreamers who turned old
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"If all cultures are equal, then cannibalism is just a matter of culinary taste." Léo Strauss
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My favorite thing about this chart is that the median homebuyer age rose from 39 in 2005 to 59 in 2025 20 years over 20 years It’s literally the same people buying the homes two decades later
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“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” — Martin Heidegger
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“There was hugely more sense in the old people who said that a wife and husband ought to have the same religion than there is in all the contemporary gushing about sister souls and kindred spirits and auras of identical colour. As a matter of fact, the more the sexes are in
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I taught an equipping class on transgenderism this morning at church and was able to explain the difference between untethered empathy and biblical sympathy.
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Send the man all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that 'suits' him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches… the search for a 'suitable' church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil. — The Screwtape Letters
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