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• First name: Dave
• Degrees
  • BS in 1964
  • MS in 1966
• Retired from teaching Math at a Community College in 2003
• Interests
  • mathematics
  • cosmology
  • music
  • golf

Quotes

It is one thing to understand the points of the compass, quite another to use them in order to find one's way in a life circumscribed by one's own refusals

Doing Time, Lynn Freed, Harper's Magazine, July 2005, Vol 311, No 1862, Page 66

As with almost everything, moderation is a good idea. (And for those wondering about the "almost," I suggest that marital fidelity, reliable childcare, and obedience to laws are examples of areas where moderation isn't such a good idea after all.)

Brain Training, Orson Scott Card, http://ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2005-06-26-1.html

I will wash myself, make myself clean, and put away the evil of my doings from before God’s eyes! I will cease to do evil, and learn to do right! I choose to seek justice, relieve the oppressed, correct the oppressor, defend the fatherless, and plead for the widow. Since I am willing and obedient, it makes sense that, though my sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. God shall supply all I that need; but if I refuse and rebel, I will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

Paraphrased from Isaiah 1:16-20

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