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0{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u"You KNOW HOW OTHER books go on and on about programming fundamentals, and finally work up to building a complete, working program? Let's skip all that.\n",
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'218-19',
'time': u'09:54 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 11 |'}
1{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'Often love this approach to learning, but appreciate context too.',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'219',
'time': u'09:54 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Note on Page 11 |'}
2{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'every Python function returns a value. If the function ever executes a return statement, it will return that value; otherwise, it will return None, the Python null value.\n',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'232-33',
'time': u'10:02 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 12 |'}
3{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'But everything is an object in the sense that it can be assigned to a variable or passed as an argument to a function\n',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'279-80',
'time': u'10:09 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 17 |'}
4{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'Everything in Python is an object. Strings are objects. Lists are objects. Functions are objects. Even modules are objects.\n',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'281',
'time': u'10:10 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 17 |'}
5{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u"Each value is printed on the same line, separated by spaces (the commas don't print).\n",
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'293-94',
'time': u'10:13 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 19 |'}
6{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'So\n',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'294',
'time': u'10:13 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Bookmark on Page 19 |'}
7{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'Reference Manual (http: //www. python. org/doc/current/ref) discusses the low-level details of importing modules (http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/import.html).\n',
'date': u'June 13, 2011',
'dow': u'Monday',
'location': u'312-13',
'time': u'10:16 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 20 |'}
8{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'\u2022 How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (http: //www. ibiblio. org/obp/ thinkCSpy) provides information about dictionaries and shows how to use dictionaries to model sparse matrices (http: //www. ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ chaplo.htm).\n',
'date': u'June 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'347-48',
'time': u'12:10 AM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 26 |'}
9{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'If both slice indices are left out, all elements of the list are included. But this is not the same as the original li list; it is a new list that happens to have all the same elements. li[ : ] is shorthand for making a complete copy of a list.\nAdding\n',
'date': u'June 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'374-76',
'time': u'12:15 AM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 29 |'}
10{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'A tuple is an immutable list. A tuple cannot be changed in any way once it is created.\n',
'date': u'June 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'421',
'time': u'12:23 AM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 34 |'}
11{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u"When a command is split among several lines with the line-continuation marker (\\), the continued lines can be indented in any manner; Python's normally stringent indentation rules do not apply.\n",
'date': u'June 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'448-49',
'time': u'12:28 AM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 37 |'}
12{'attribution': [u'Mark Pilgrim'],
'body': u'parameters\n',
'date': u'June 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'463',
'time': u'07:51 PM',
'title': u'Dive Into Python',
'type': u'Bookmark on Page 38 |'}
13{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Great companies start in garages all the time. Yours can too.',
'date': u'June 22, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'538-39',
'time': u'09:11 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
14{'attribution': [u'Marcus Brigstocke'],
'body': u'I recorded Masterchef over the Professor Brian Cox documentary \u2026',
'date': u'June 23, 2011',
'dow': u'Thursday',
'location': u'98-99',
'time': u'07:04 PM',
'title': u'God Collar',
'type': u'Highlight'}
15{'attribution': [u'Marcus Brigstocke'],
'body': u'Happily reading God Collar and discovered the sign of lapsed Atheists:',
'date': u'June 23, 2011',
'dow': u'Thursday',
'location': u'99',
'time': u'07:06 PM',
'title': u'God Collar',
'type': u'Note'}
16{'attribution': [u'Marcus Brigstocke'],
'body': u'We try not to be gits but our innate selfishness, greed and fear prevent us from making the bold step into area (b) and away from githood.',
'date': u'June 28, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'1169-70',
'time': u'09:47 PM',
'title': u'God Collar',
'type': u'Highlight'}
17{'attribution': [u'Marcus Brigstocke'],
'body': u'Well, I was an atheist when I started reading The God Delusion; by the time I\u2019d finished it I was an agnostic. I was going to read it again but I worried I might turn into a fundamentalist Christian.',
'date': u'July 02, 2011',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'1947-48',
'time': u'12:58 PM',
'title': u'God Collar',
'type': u'Highlight'}
18{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'The business world is littered with dead documents that do nothing but waste people\u2019s time. Reports no one reads, diagrams no one looks at, and specs that never resemble the finished product. These things take forever to make but only seconds to forget.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'841-43',
'time': u'03:43 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
19{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'this is important...',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'843',
'time': u'03:43 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Note'}
20{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'this is important...',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'843',
'time': u'03:47 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Note'}
21{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Small victories let you celebrate and release good news. And you want a steady stream of good news. When there\u2019s something new to announce every two weeks, you energize your team and give your customers something to be excited about.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'995-97',
'time': u'04:02 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
22{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'We\u2019re all terrible estimators. We think we can guess how long something will take, when we really have no idea. We see everything going according to a best-case scenario, without the delays that inevitably pop up. Reality never sticks to best-case scenarios.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1040-42',
'time': u'04:08 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
23{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Long lists are guilt trips. The longer the list of unfinished items, the worse you feel about it. And at a certain point, you just stop looking at it because it makes you feel bad. Then you stress out and the whole thing turns into a big mess.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1067-69',
'time': u'04:11 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
24{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'i do this...',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1069',
'time': u'04:11 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Note'}
25{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Decommoditize your product. Make it something no one else can offer.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1129',
'time': u'04:55 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
26{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Pour yourself into your product and everything around your product too: how you sell it, how you support it, how you explain it, and how you deliver it. Competitors can never copy the you in your product.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1142-44',
'time': u'04:57 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
27{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Audi takes on Lexus\u2019s automatic parking systems with ads that say Audi drivers know how to park their own cars.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1154-55',
'time': u'04:58 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
28{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1155',
'time': u'04:59 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Bookmark'}
29{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Defensive companies can\u2019t think ahead; they can only think behind. They don\u2019t lead; they follow.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1172-73',
'time': u'05:00 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
30{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition. Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1174-75',
'time': u'05:00 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
31{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Don\u2019t shy away from the fact that your product or service does less. Highlight it. Be proud of it. Sell it as aggressively as competitors sell their extensive feature lists. Who',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1201-5',
'time': u'05:02 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
32{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Who',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1204-5',
'time': u'05:02 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
33{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Who',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1204-5',
'time': u'05:03 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
34{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Who',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1204-5',
'time': u'05:03 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
35{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Focus on competitors too much and you wind up diluting your own vision. Your chances of coming up with something fresh go way down when you keep feeding your brain other people\u2019s ideas. You become reactionary instead of visionary. You wind up offering your competitor\u2019s products with a different coat of paint.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1215-17',
'time': u'05:04 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
36{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Don\u2019t ask yourself whether you\u2019re \u201cbeating\u201d Apple (or whoever the big boy is in your industry). That\u2019s the wrong question to ask. It\u2019s not a win-or-lose battle. Their profits and costs are theirs. Yours are yours.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1221-23',
'time': u'05:06 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
37{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Good answer to whether this will kill that in the tech world.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1223',
'time': u'05:06 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Note'}
38{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'It\u2019s so easy to say yes. Yes to another feature, yes to an overly optimistic deadline, yes to a mediocre design. Soon, the stack of things you\u2019ve said yes to grows so tall you can\u2019t even see the things you should really be doing.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1236-38',
'time': u'05:07 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
39{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'It\u2019s better to have people be happy using someone else\u2019s product than disgruntled using yours.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1255-56',
'time': u'05:08 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
40{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'No one knows who you are right now. And that\u2019s just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you\u2019re in the shadows.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1325-26',
'time': u'05:14 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
41{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'As a business owner, you should share everything you know too.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1387-88',
'time': u'05:21 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
42{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'You don\u2019t create a culture. It happens. This is why new companies don\u2019t have a culture. Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1830-33',
'time': u'08:26 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
43{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Decisions are temporary.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1846',
'time': u'08:27 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
44{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'They\u2019re a result of giving people the privacy, workspace, and tools they deserve. Great environments show respect for the people who do the work and how they do',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1865-66',
'time': u'08:28 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
45{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Policies are organizational scar tissue.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1900',
'time': u'08:33 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
46{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'Stay away from buzzwords when normal words will do just fine. Don\u2019t talk about \u201cmonetization\u201d or being \u201ctransparent\u201d; talk about making money and being honest. Don\u2019t use seven words when four will do.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1918-20',
'time': u'08:37 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Highlight'}
47{'attribution': [u'Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson'],
'body': u'I believe words influence thought and fake or distancing words cannot inspire.',
'date': u'July 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1920',
'time': u'08:37 PM',
'title': u'ReWork',
'type': u'Note'}
48{'attribution': [u'D. Alan Cruse'],
'body': u'Since utterances in their initial form as mental representations cannot be transmitted directly (telepathy, if it exists at all, does not appear to be reliable),\n',
'date': u'July 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Thursday',
'location': u'124-25',
'time': u'10:02 AM',
'title': u'Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 9 |'}
49{'attribution': [u'D. Alan Cruse'],
'body': u'Quite.',
'date': u'July 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Thursday',
'location': u'125',
'time': u'10:02 AM',
'title': u'Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics',
'type': u'Note on Page 9 |'}
50{'attribution': [u'T. H. White'],
'body': u'\u2018That\u2019s it.\u2019 \u2018Hic, Haec, Hoc,\u2019 said Sir Ector. \u2018Have some more of this drink, whatever it calls itself.\u2019 \u2018Hunc,\u2019 said Sir Grummore.',
'date': u'August 21, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'138-40',
'time': u'05:40 PM',
'title': u'The Once and Future King',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 11 |'}
51{'attribution': [u'T. H. White'],
'body': u't.h. white goes well with a sunday afternoon.',
'date': u'August 21, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'140',
'time': u'05:40 PM',
'title': u'The Once and Future King',
'type': u'Note on Page 11 |'}
52{'attribution': [u'T. H. White'],
'body': u'\u2018Kay,\u2019 said Merlyn, suddenly terrible, \u2018thou wast ever a proud and ill-tongued speaker, and a misfortunate one. Thy sorrow will come from thine own mouth.\u2019',
'date': u'August 21, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'672-74',
'time': u'09:34 PM',
'title': u'The Once and Future King',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 40 |'}
53{'attribution': [u'T. H. White'],
'body': u'The knob of the handle was made of the skull of a stoat, oiled and polished like ivory, and Kay loved',
'date': u'August 21, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'677-78',
'time': u'09:35 PM',
'title': u'The Once and Future King',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 40 |'}
54{'attribution': [u'T. H. White'],
'body': u'\u2018Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind, but the mind\u2019s power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.',
'date': u'August 21, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'902-3',
'time': u'11:03 PM',
'title': u'The Once and Future King',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 52 |'}
55{'attribution': [u'Penguin Books', u'A J P Taylor'],
'body': u'The men in top hats wanted the war to go on. Men in cloth caps wanted to end it. Lenin wore a cloth cap.',
'date': u'September 10, 2011',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'2133-34',
'time': u'09:19 PM',
'title': u'The First World War: An Illustrated History',
'type': u'Highlight'}
56{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'',
'date': u'September 20, 2011',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'362',
'time': u'11:27 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Bookmark'}
57{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'The Church is called to be a holy priesthood. The presbyter is called to signify this priestly calling. In more sacramental language, the presbyter is a sign of the priestly life of the Church.',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'643-44',
'time': u'06:32 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Highlight'}
58{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'Reading an Anglican perspective on priests.',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'644',
'time': u'06:32 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Note'}
59{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'The priest is called to support and to nurture Christians wherever they may be found, helping them in whatever way is appropriate to actualize their priestly calling to be with and for others, living in the ways of God\u2019s kingdom and practising the presence of God in their places of work and leisure.',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'800-802',
'time': u'06:59 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Highlight'}
60{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'Gregory regularly refers to the priest as a rector, a Latin word that found its way intact into the English language. Derived from the verb rego (meaning, to keep straight or guide in the right direction), it literally meant a helmsman or a herdsman and was even used of an elephant driver!',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'939-41',
'time': u'07:58 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Highlight'}
61{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'hmm, maybe a vicar should strive to be a kitten-herder?',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'941',
'time': u'07:58 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Note'}
62{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'O Good Shepherd Jesus good, gentle, tender Shepherd, behold as a shepherd, poor and pitiful, a shepherd of your sheep indeed, but weak and clumsy and of little use, cries out to you. To you, I say, Good Shepherd, this shepherd, who is not good, makes his prayer. He cries out to you, troubled upon his own account, and troubled for your sheep.47',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1123-36',
'time': u'08:09 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Highlight'}
63{'attribution': [u'Christopher Cocksworth'],
'body': u'Take heed to yourselves . . . lest you famish while you prepare their food.51',
'date': u'September 25, 2011',
'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'1251-52',
'time': u'08:23 PM',
'title': u'Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity',
'type': u'Highlight'}
64{'attribution': [u'Very Short Introductions', u'Mark Chapman'],
'body': u'The Church of England can be understood as perhaps the purest form of the late medieval church ideal surviving after the Reformation.',
'date': u'September 28, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'232-33',
'time': u'11:09 PM',
'title': u'Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction',
'type': u'Highlight'}
65{'attribution': [u'Very Short Introductions', u'Mark Chapman'],
'body': u'Some looked for authority in the direct experience of God in the heart or in God\u2019s Word as set forth in Scripture (the Evangelicals). Others sought it in God\u2019s appointed messengers, the bishops (the Anglo-Catholics).',
'date': u'September 28, 2011',
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'title': u'Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction',
'type': u'Highlight'}
66{'attribution': [u'Very Short Introductions', u'Mark Chapman'],
'body': u'interesting pov on evangelicals and catholic...what about others?',
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'location': u'254',
'time': u'11:14 PM',
'title': u'Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction',
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67{'attribution': [u'Crossway Bibles'],
'body': u'COLOSSIANS\xa03\xa0If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.',
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'time': u'06:07 PM',
'title': u'The Holy Bible, English Standard Version',
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68{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Always give readers the option of seeing more information if they wish to do so.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'83',
'time': u'07:55 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
69{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'This sort of content isn\u2019t neutral, either: it actively wastes time and money and works against user and business goals.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'95-96',
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'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
70{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'\u201cmake sure that (1) the user can figure out what to do, and (2) the user can tell what is going on.\u201d2',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'112-14',
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'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
71{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Publishing content that is self-absorbed in substance or style alienates readers.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'128-29',
'time': u'08:01 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
72{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'An editor\u2019s only permanent alliance is with the audience, the readership.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'257',
'time': u'08:18 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
73{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'The fact that anyone reads anything at all online is a demonstration of an extraordinary hunger for content.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
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'time': u'08:41 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
74{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'As a designer, the only way to ensure that the page makes for good reading is to read it yourself;',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'389',
'time': u'08:42 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
75{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
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76{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'reduce distractions in sidebars, fight ads that obstruct content, and give readers the equivalent of good light and a quiet room.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'394-95',
'time': u'08:44 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
77{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'And as content advocates, we should be ready to contribute to the design of user experiences that involve our content.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'405-6',
'time': u'08:45 AM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
78{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'I will now oversimplify to the point of cartoonishness.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'436',
'time': u'04:49 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
79{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'(If this subject interests you, get thee to a copy of Clout, by Colleen Jones.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'475-76',
'time': u'04:57 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
80{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'(http://bkaprt.com/cs/9/).',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'489-90',
'time': u'05:02 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
81{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Before we dive in, a note about \u201cdeliverables\u201d\u2014those things we give or \u201cdeliver\u201d to clients. It\u2019s a ridiculous, clumsy word. Unfortunately, the circumlocutions required to get around it are awful, too, so I\u2019m going to keep using it. And hey, it could be worse\u2014at least our industry mostly avoids \u201cwork product.\u201d',
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'dow': u'Wednesday',
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'time': u'05:27 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
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82{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'well put about awkwardly needed business vocabulary.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'636',
'time': u'05:27 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Note'}
83{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'content specialists are well placed to act as user advocates,',
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'dow': u'Wednesday',
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'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
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84{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'It\u2019s very easy for content specialists to be drawn into internal conflicts. Don\u2019t let it happen.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'721-22',
'time': u'05:42 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
85{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'What matters is that you take the time to clarify what the project is meant to accomplish\u2014and to make sure that everyone who needs to agree on that point, does.',
'date': u'December 14, 2011',
'dow': u'Wednesday',
'location': u'727-28',
'time': u'05:43 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
86{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Some people call this stuff \u201csuccess metrics,\u201d which is pretty clear, but I like \u201cvictory conditions,\u201d',
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'dow': u'Friday',
'location': u'757-58',
'time': u'12:00 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
87{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Ha! Yes:',
'date': u'December 16, 2011',
'dow': u'Friday',
'location': u'758',
'time': u'12:00 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Note'}
88{'attribution': [u'Erin Kissane'],
'body': u'Back in the 1990s, when you loaded a webpage with inline JPEG images, they started out looking like classic Nintendo characters and gradually came into focus. So too will your content strategy work gradually evolve from blocky, abstract outlines into crisp photographic detail.',
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'dow': u'Friday',
'location': u'844-46',
'time': u'12:12 PM',
'title': u'The Elements of Content Strategy',
'type': u'Highlight'}
89{'attribution': [u'Oscar Wilde'],
'body': u'The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.',
'date': u'January 10, 2012',
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'title': u'The Picture of Dorian Gray',
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90{'attribution': [u'Oscar Wilde'],
'body': u'A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'08:31 AM',
'title': u'The Picture of Dorian Gray',
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91{'attribution': [u'Colleen Jones'],
'body': u'If your content speaks well, it grows a relationship between your company and your customers or users.',
'date': u'May 26, 2012',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'385-86',
'time': u'12:11 PM',
'title': u'Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content',
'type': u'Highlight'}
92{'attribution': [u'Dean Allemang and James Hendler'],
'body': u'Then they go on to explain how they used some conventional, established technology such as relational databases, XML stores, or object stores to make their data more connected and consistent. But what is it that these developers are building? What is it about managing data this way that made it worth their while to create a whole subsystem on top of their base technology to deal with it? And where are these projects two or more years later? When those same developers are asked whether they would rather have built a flexible, distributed, connected data model support system themselves than have used a standard one that someone else optimized and supported, they unanimously chose the latter. Infrastructure is something that one would rather buy than build.',
'date': u'July 21, 2012',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'268-73',
'time': u'04:49 PM',
'title': u'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist [2nd Ed.]',
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93{'attribution': [u'Dean Allemang and James Hendler'],
'body': u'infrastructure is more desirable bought than built.',
'date': u'July 21, 2012',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'273',
'time': u'04:49 PM',
'title': u'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist [2nd Ed.]',
'type': u'Note'}
94{'attribution': [u'Dean Allemang and James Hendler'],
'body': u'It is the inherent ambiguity of natural language at each level that makes the next layer of commentary necessary until the degree of ambiguity is \u201cgood enough\u201d that no more levels are needed.',
'date': u'July 21, 2012',
'dow': u'Saturday',
'location': u'585-87',
'time': u'05:47 PM',
'title': u'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist [2nd Ed.]',
'type': u'Highlight'}
95{'attribution': [u'Penguin Classics', u'Thomas D. Hamm'],
'body': u'Tobacco was a thing I did not love, and psalms I was not in a state to sing; I could not sing.',
'date': u'August 07, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'366',
'time': u'11:41 PM',
'title': u'Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 6 |'}
96{'attribution': [u'Penguin Classics', u'Thomas D. Hamm'],
'body': u'George Fox expresses the beginnings of #firstworldproblems',
'date': u'August 07, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'366',
'time': u'11:41 PM',
'title': u'Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920',
'type': u'Note on Page 6 |'}
97{'attribution': [u'Aarron Walter'],
'body': u'Every time we add content to an interface, it makes it harder for humans to identify patterns and contrasting elements.',
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'dow': u'Sunday',
'location': u'338-39',
'time': u'02:12 AM',
'title': u'Designing for Emotion',
'type': u'Highlight'}
98{'attribution': [u'Aarron Walter'],
'body': u'You\u2019ll need to be persuasive without letting your marketing show when courting a skeptical, lazy, or apathetic audience.',
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'title': u'Designing for Emotion',
'type': u'Highlight'}
99{'attribution': [u'Penguin Classics', u'Jesse L. Byock'],
'body': u'',
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'location': u'126',
'time': u'02:43 PM',
'title': u'The Prose Edda',
'type': u'Bookmark'}
100{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'I have been the recipient of sixteen death threats, all of which came from Bible-quoting \u201ctrue believers.\u201d',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'09:21 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight'}
101{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'However, more than any ecclesiastical figure in my knowledge, he pushed his church into real dialogue with the real world.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'219-20',
'time': u'09:23 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight'}
102{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'It arises out of the sense that God must be worshiped with the mind as well as the heart. It also reveals that any god who is threatened by new truth from any source is clearly dead already.',
'date': u'November 13, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'09:27 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight'}
103{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'Clifford L. Stanley, one of my theology professors almost forty-five years ago, was fond of saying, \u201cAny god who can be killed ought to be killed.\u201d',
'date': u'November 13, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'246-47',
'time': u'09:28 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight'}
104{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'To them I issue the biblical invitation: \u201cCome now, let us reason together, says the Lord\u201d (Isa. 1:18). They are the ones who seem to understand that Christianity must change or die.',
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'time': u'09:29 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight'}
105{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'Human words always contract and diminish my God awareness. They never expand it.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'09:35 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 4 |'}
106{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'The words of the Apostles\u2019 Creed, and its later expansion known as the Nicene Creed, were fashioned inside a worldview that no longer exists.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'09:36 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 4 |'}
107{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'at the very least, as something idolatrously called the \u201cunchanging sacred tradition of the Church.\u201d I do not care to worship a God defined by masculinity.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'339-40',
'time': u'09:39 AM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 5 |'}
108{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'We do not want to be among those who fear that if we think about what we say about God, either our minds will close down or our faith will explode.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'529-30',
'time': u'04:54 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 18 |'}
109{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'finding this book both challenging and affirming',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'530',
'time': u'04:54 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Note on Page 18 |'}
110{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'I hasten to recognize that any and all contemporary reformulations of the Christian faith will still be but the products of yet another age in human history.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'05:04 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 19 |'}
111{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'So any recasting of the creeds that we might produce today will be no more eternal than those formulations of the fourth and fifth centuries proved to be, nor should they be.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'552-53',
'time': u'05:04 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 19 |'}
112{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'As a believer, I am not prepared to deny the reality of the underlying Christian experience. Yet I do recognize that the future understanding and the very shape of Christianity will inevitably be different, profoundly different, from that which has come down to us from the past.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'05:15 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 20 |'}
113{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'I am exiled from the worldview in which the creed was formed.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'05:16 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 20 |'}
114{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'That vocation is to legitimize the questions, the probings, and, in whatever form, the faith of the believer in exile.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
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'time': u'05:17 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 21 |'}
115{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'The hunger for God is deep and pervasive in our society today. We need to recognize that this is not the same thing as hunger for the answers the church has traditionally given. Indeed, many seekers today do not act as if the Church will ever be a place where God can be fruitfully sought.',
'date': u'November 13, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'574-76',
'time': u'05:18 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 21 |'}
116{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'yep:',
'date': u'November 13, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'576',
'time': u'05:18 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Note on Page 21 |'}
117{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'The modern consciousness was on the way to becoming godless, at least by traditional religious definitions.',
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'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'748',
'time': u'06:15 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 33 |'}
118{'attribution': [u'John Shelby Spong'],
'body': u'No creature can finally conceptualize beyond its own limits or its own being. A horse cannot think or imagine beyond the experience of a horse. Despite our human pretensions, that is also true of human beings. If human beings have gods, they will look and act remarkably like human beings.',
'date': u'November 13, 2012',
'dow': u'Tuesday',
'location': u'935-37',
'time': u'06:58 PM',
'title': u'Why Christianity Must Change or Die',
'type': u'Highlight on Page 47 |'}
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