Michael Brooks:  

CLASS OF 1978
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Worthington, OH

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Michael is from Worthington, Ohio. Michael's schools include Linworth Alternative Program. Michael later attended The Ohio State University (Bachelor of Arts (Humanities)) , University of Washington (Bachelor of Science (Neurobiology)) . Music Michael likes includes Cameron Rhodes, Adam Nixon Music. Books Michael likes include The Life of St Antony. Movies Michael likes include Harvey, Almost Famous, Casablanca. One of Michael's favorite quotes is:"From Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street wit...Expand for more
h one lonely chauffeur -- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" St. Tikhon's anathema against the Bolsheviks (1918): "Come to your sense, madmen. Cease your bloody violence, for what you are doing is not only cruel, it is indeed satanic, and for it you will be subject to the fires of hell in the life to come beyond the grave, and to a terrible curse from posterity in this earthly life." Saying from Abba Agathon: "The brothers also asked him, 'Amongst all good works, which is the virtue which requires the greatest effort?' He answered, 'Forgive me, but I think there is no labour greater than that of prayer to God. For every time a man wants to pray, his enemies, the demons, want to prevent him, for they know that it is only by turning him from prayer that they can hinder his journey. Whatever good work a man undertakes, if he perseveres in it he will attain rest. But prayer is warfare to the last breath'." From the Jimmy Stewart film "Harvey" (1950): "Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say: 'In this world, Elwood,' she always used to call me Elwood, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh, so smart or oh, so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you can quote me."".
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