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Here's Ralph Waldo Emerson's advice to Margaret Fuller on keeping a journal/commonplace book: "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all those words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of a trumpet out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John, and Paul."
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www.diyplanner.com/docs/commonplace2
www.diyplanner.com/docs/commonplace2
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Enter the "commonplace book" system (a literal translation of the locus communis, referring to a theme or argument ... They belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things, for the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own,
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www.diyplanner.com/node/324
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Filed in Recently Read and tagged bestof2009, book covers, design, Recently Read ... I think I need to make different use of my time at times. I'm frustrated with how little time I have to accomplish things I think are important, and how much time we spend doing stuff that doesn't move us forward.
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www.commonplacebook.com/
www.commonplacebook.com/
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Filed in: Politics ... 8 Oct 2003 ... Already conservatives are talking about changing the constitution to allow Schwarzenegger to run for president. Currently he's not allowed because he wasn't born in the US. Here's a note to them: That will happen over my dead body...
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www.commonplacebook.com/current_events/politics/conserv...
www.commonplacebook.com/current_events/politics/conservatives_w.shtm
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Among the manuscripts of the Winthrop family that were collected by Robert C. Winthrop in the late nineteenth century was what he described as "an old manuscript volume, which seemed to have been a kind of Commonplace-Book of Adam Winthrop". ... for the prophet David did make himselfe a foole, and suffer spittle to fall on...
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www.millersville.edu/~winthrop/common.html
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This is truly laughable, especially when it comes from a buffoon like Rush Limbaugh who said that all Obama has ever done is make speeches. And what, exactly, has Rush Limbaugh ever done except talk?
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acommonplacejbl.blogspot.com/
acommonplacejbl.blogspot.com/
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"Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which 'commonplaces' or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; ... "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God,
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homepage.mac.com/bmulligan/commonbook.html
homepage.mac.com/bmulligan/commonbook.html
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Chris, along with two others from the Oakland Center for the Arts, formed a book club based on the more democratic idea that written expression is valid. Period. Chris, Brooxie, and Ric began the book club (of which I ... They are glimpses, nothing more. It is up to us to make Truth and then to redefine it when we need to...
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acommonbook.wordpress.com/
acommonbook.wordpress.com/
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Below you will find answers to some basic questions about commonplace books. As you read through the information, notice that the page is set up very much like a page in a commonplace book. Although I've entered a few comments of my own, this is essentially ... They belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things,
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www.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/commonplacebook.html
www.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/commonplacebook.html
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