{"query": "A parable — No cloning", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7f0e373db3d6", "title": "A parable — No cloning", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A singer had a voice no one could copy. Many tried to learn it. Those who learned the song were not the singer; those who imitated the singer broke their own voice. The voice could be heard, and given"}, {"id": "card_n_27586fd6114c", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_17: Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right conduct; where there is no right conduct, there is no Torah. Where there is no wisdom, there is no fear of God; where there is"}, {"id": "card_n_5294ef904e9f", "title": "A parable — Hidden sin", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a small fire in his cellar. He never spoke of it; it burned only when he was alone. He told himself it warmed only him and harmed no one. The fire ate the supports of the house slowly, wher"}, {"id": "card_n_b3dff7685a9e", "title": "A parable — Kerckhoffs", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A locksmith made a lock so clever no one could open it. His pride was the lock itself. When a thief studied the lock long enough, the lock fell open like all locks fall open, and the locksmith had no "}, {"id": "card_n_8b6256f0ebba", "title": "A parable — Decision two roads", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the fork of two roads with no map. He sat down to think and a thousand reasons came, half for each road. After many hours he saw he was no closer to choosing. Then he remembered the thi"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_ebd9f46f16cd", "title": "A parable — Addiction scroll", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man drew water from a well that had no bottom. The bucket was light, and came up empty every time. He kept drawing because the bucket was light. Years passed. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_n_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c841c02410", "title": "A parable — Ltv", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man borrowed against his house until the debt reached the rooftop. When the wind came and shook the price down by a tenth, the rooftop was beneath the debt. He still lived in the house, but the hous"}, {"id": "card_n_ec6dc6d5b92f", "title": "A parable — Regression mean", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was called lucky, for the dice fell well for him three nights in a row. He believed it, and bet his house on the fourth. The dice did not know they had favored him, and on the fourth night they "}, {"id": "card_n_182e7452566e", "title": "A parable — Strawman", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man heard his neighbor's voice through the wall and built in his mind a smaller man, a weaker man, easier to answer. He spent the evening defeating this smaller man. In the morning the neighbor knoc"}, {"id": "card_n_61bf8457ea27", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come. The strength had be"}, {"id": "card_n_915a4bb7dd8d", "title": "A parable — Neuroscience window", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man wanted to plant an orchard. Each spring he had reasons to wait, and each fall he agreed with himself it had been wise. By the time he planted, his hands could no longer dig deep, and the trees g"}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}, {"id": "card_n_d020834a87f2", "title": "A parable — Temptation", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. The new temptation you fear is not new — only newly aimed at you. With the temptation, the same road has a door. The door is sometimes "}, {"id": "card_n_fcc56a2cbd8a", "title": "A parable — Calling late", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At the eleventh hour the master found men still standing in the market, and asked, 'Why have ye stood here all the day idle?' They said, 'Because no man hath hired us.' He sent them into the vineyard."}, {"id": "card_n_3cb176a11c26", "title": "Easton: No", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or No-A’mon, the home of Amon, the name of Thebes, the ancient capital of what is called the Middle Empire, in Upper or Southern Egypt. “The multitude of No” (Jer. 46:25) is more correctly rendered, a"}, {"id": "card_n_eed69ae1df64", "title": "A parable — Lonely christ", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A traveler walked a long road and saw no one. He was sure he was alone, for the road was empty and the sky was wide. As he walked he heard his own footsteps doubled. When he stopped, the footsteps sto"}]}