THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: courtesy the novelist Irme Kertesz (from Kaddish for a Child Not Born):
"On the other hand, I then probably said, and this is important, what is really irrational and what truly cannot be explained is not evil but, contrarily, the good. For that very reason I am no longer interested in Fuhrers, Chancellors, or other sundry titled usurpers, regardless of how many interesting details you muster concerning their spiritual worlds; no, instead of the lives of the dictators, it is, exclusively and for a long time now, the lives of the saints that interest me. This is what I find interesting and incomprehensible, this is what I cannot find a rational explanation for."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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