June 2021 Quote of the Day Blog

Continuing my project of recording one quote I hear or read on each day. I will update this note as the month progresses

JUNE: 12:

“When I went there [to Jana Novotna's house] for the very first time I was nervous because she was such an amazing person, such a big tennis player, big athlete and everything. She was always just very nice, very warm,” Krejcikova said.

“She wasn't acting like she won so many titles, that she's somebody special. She's always acting like a normal person… She always told me like, ‘Doesn't matter how many titles you're going to win, you always have to come and say hello, please, and thank you. It's very important to behave very nice'.

“I take all of this and I really appreciate because that's what she was actually doing. She was a great athlete. She was still very humble. She's a big role model. I just want to be the same as she was.”

— From this article about the new women's French Open champion: Barbora Krejčíková. It was her first major in singles, but she has won majors in doubles and mixed doubles in the past.

JUNE 11:

@AnaCabrera on TWITTER: "I found this decision so egregious that I resigned the day they made that announcement." --Dr. Joel Perlmutter, who sat on the FDA's advisory board, explain his biggest concerns about the FDA approval of a new Alzheimer's drug.

—From this tweet with an accompanying video. Between WHO shenanigans about pressuring governments to essentially ban treatments doctors find effective for Covid, and shady FDA practices, there's a lot happening to suggest medical science is being manipulated. 

JUNE 10:

@darren_cahill on TWITTER: There's no guarantee that mark shown by Hawkeye was correct as it hasn't passed the accuracy test in trials on clay. It's why it is not used. It dangerous to use Hawkeye to replay ball marks on clay (for TV) when it's not reliable enough yet for match play.

—NBC's tennis commentators are terrible. I wish Cahill was on their team because he is a MUCH better commentator who does a much better job at presenting the game and players to an audience.

JUNE 9:

@BastienFachan on TWITTER:
2018: Schwartzman ends Nadal’s 38-set winning streak at Roland-Garros
2021: Schwartzman ends Nadal’s 36-set winning streak at Roland-Garros
Just Diego things

JUNE 8:

@joshcarlosjosh on TWITTER:
me: "Jesus, should I buy this new book?"
Jesus: “Show me the latest new books you read.”
me: "I have no new books I've read."
Jesus: "You are right in saying, ‘I have no new books I've read,' for you have twenty-six new books, and the ones you now own you have not read."

JUNE 7:

ME: Today I learned there's a Latin edition of Winnie the Pooh.

JUNE 6:

@andrewbostom on TWITTER: "Cleveland Clinic Hlth Sys Study finds ZERO C19 reinfections during 5-month follow-up among n=1359 infected employees who remained unvaccinated and concludes such persons are “unlikely to benefit from C19 vaccination”  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2

—People who pay attention to science know that natural immunity is a powerful thing.

JUNE 5:

The way the word knowledge is used by many intellectuals often arbitrarily limits what verified information is to be considered knowledge. This arbitrary limitation of the scope of the word was expressed in a parody verse about Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol College at Oxford University:

 

My name is Benjamin Jowett

If it's knowledge, I know it.

I am the master of this college.

What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Someone who is considered to be a "knowledgeable" person usually has a special kind of knowledge— perhaps academic or other kinds of knowledge not widely found in the population at large. Someone who has even more knowledge of more mundane things— plumbing, carpentry, or baseball, for example— is less likely to be called "knowledgeable" by those intellectuals for whom what they don't know isn't knowledge. Although the special kind of knowledge associated with intellectuals is usually valued more, and those who have such knowledge are usually accorded more prestige, it is by no means certain that the kind of knowledge mastered by intellectuals is necessarily more consequential in its effects in the real world. The same is true even of expert knowledge. No doubt those in charge of the Titanic had far more expertise in many aspects of seafaring than most ordinary had, but what was crucial in its consequences was the mundane knowledge of where particular icebergs happened to be located on a particular night. Many major economic decisions are likewise crucially dependent on the kind of mundane knowledge that intellectuals might disdain to consider to be knowledge in the sense in which they habitually use the word.

—From Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell.

JUNE 4:

@Melanchthon61 on Twitter:

Hillsong Oceans at Assembly.
"Lord, how often do we have to sing the chorus in Oceans? 7 times?"
"No," the Lord said, "7 x 70"

JUNE 3:

@StorySlug on TWITTER: Canonically, the Lord of the Rings is a memoir by hobbits, which has several detailed descriptions of meals throughout, so maybe the whole saga is just one of those recipe blogs where they have to tell you a whole epic story before getting to the food. 

JUNE 2:

In Christ, all things hold together
All things in heaven or on earth
The beginning and the end are His,
He the ground and fruit of all that's good.

—The verse from this song by Ami Andersen. I included some of her videos in my last Lent playlist, and they were some of my favorite finds on the list. I have very happy to discover she had put out new videos including this one.

JUNE 1:

"When sports and theology are two major interests, I've learned to read any Tweet containing "Kyrie" at least twice to see if we're talking more liturgy or layups."
—Seen on Twitter