things

• “Sometimes it's telling myself that credit for things accomplished and blame for things undone* are not linked; I can say, "The reason I don't have a job yet is the economy, and when I do get a job, it will be because I am awesome," and not be lying or otherwise deserving of bad things*.”

  Making Light: Open thread 134

• “It leads one to pursue such things as gardening, beekeeping and cooking..things that take time and roots and being still.”

  Earth and air

• “In the 1787 Introduction to the first Critique Kant maintains this problem of cognitive grounding can be overcome by acknowledging that, while reason must postulate the ˜unconditioned (...) in all things in themselves for everything conditioned, so that the series of conditions should thus become complete™, by restricting knowledge to appearances, rather than allowing it to be of ˜things in themselves™, the contradiction of seeking conditions of the unconditioned can be avoided.”

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

• “Neuter denotes things; as, -- doctī, _scholars_; parva, _small things_; malī, _the wicked_; magna, _great things_;”

  New Latin Grammar

• “_Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, -- think on these things_.”

  Daily Strength for Daily Needs

• “Many a time I've kept a-thinking of that verse which says, 'He that spared not His only-begotten Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not, with Him, also freely give us all things' -- the _all things_ there meaning, you see, the troubles and losses as much as the gains, and successes, and pleasures.”

  The Story of the White-Rock Cove

• “Hospitality, and this hath been my practice from my youth upward: I come to put men in mind of their redemption, to have them love one another, to impart with something here below, that they may receive more and better things above; the wise man saith _There is a time for all things_, and why not for thankfulness?”

  A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

• “_Getting things done_ will leave the school free to concentrate its attention upon school problems; _doing things_ will lead it afield into the problem of medicine, surgery, restaurant keeping, and practical charity.”

  Civics and Health

• “The argument for _getting things done_ presumes adequate active machinery, official and private, for _doing things_ that schools are being urged to do.”

  Civics and Health

• “The advantages of _getting things done_ over _doing things_ have been repeatedly emphasized.”

  Civics and Health

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