February 2012
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“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys:...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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dangerous errors
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. - Sydney Smith
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“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most...”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871
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A good listener
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Kenneth A. Wells
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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than...”
– Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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development of our consciousness
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the...
January 2012
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RM confidential
RM confidential dove se becco quarche amico ar giro ormai è solamente coincidenza Roma paranoica dove la gente vive e si trascina solo per sopravvivenza RM confidential dove se becco quarche svorta ar giro ormai è solamente coincidenza Roma paranoica dove conta solo la facciata conta solo l’apparenza
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“Con tante baracche di legno, tutte uguali, e seminato da tante sentinelle che ad...”
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dimly suspects
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the...
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“Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a...”
– Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
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"Quell'isola non doveva essere lì!"
Scoppiano le polemiche: “A bordo nessuno sapeva cosa fare”. Poi addirittura il naufragio. [giggi]
Il capitano non si è accorto subito del disastro. Il ristorante era pieno. [miguel mosè]
Il Comandante si sarebbe rifiutato di risalire sulla nave per i soccorsi. “Sono già salvo, grazie”. [F 4 Fake]
I passeggeri: “Sembrava il Titanic”. Invece era un cretino. [edelman]
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friend & enemy
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. - Saadi
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at the bottom of a well
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead. - Charles Richter
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“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.”
– Alexander Penney
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but
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word “but” which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative — before they tell you.
Thus: “I have always...
December 2011
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wishes
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. - John Henry Cardinal Newman
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excellence
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into...”
– Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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“If global crisis subsists, there will be solely two banks left at the end of...”
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“There is no blunt, drink, trip, chick, or song that will ever make you feel the...”
– Martin Cambyo (via cambyo)
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“After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave...”
– John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
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November 2011
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via heptagram) reblogged from dadoranonimo
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise...”
– Theodore Rubin