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02 Jan 10
Ave atque Vale « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
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Paul Tilich: “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
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Paul Tilich: “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
11 Sep 09
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/moby11.txt
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For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished
with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.
10 Sep 09
The spirit of Thomas Paine could yet inspire Cameron | David Marquand | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Adam Smith's aphorism that "there is a lot of ruin in a nation"
04 Sep 09
The story of the failure of economics in 2000 words (Paul Krugman NYT)
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How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
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H. L. Mencken: “There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible and wrong.”
06 Aug 09
24 heures Philo: Sarkozy et la Princesse de Clèves: (fin) que faire des femmes intellos?
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Selon Marie d’Agout, la maîtresse de Franz Lizst, on a besoin de vingt hommes et de cinq femmes pour le constituer, puisque «le bonheur est d’y passer pour un homme d’esprit auprès de femmes qui en ont»
Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war - science-in-society - 07 July 2009 - New Scientist
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Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war
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George Santayana demurred. In its aftermath he declared: "Only the dead have seen the end of war"
15 Jul 09
FT.com / Columnists / John Kay - Managers doomed to repeat the mistakes of history
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“Our misjudgment of friend and foe alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture and politics.”
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“The end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.”
11 Jul 09
"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
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Truth needs to
be sought, found and expressed within the “economy” of charity, but charity in
its turn needs to be understood, confirmed and practised in the light of truth
08 Jul 09
Design banking to be run by idiots, because it is (John Kay, ft.com)
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Warren Buffett’s: invest only in businesses that an idiot can run, because sooner or later an idiot will.
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Great and enduringly successful organisations are not stages on which geniuses can strut. They are structures that make the most of the ordinary talents of ordinary people.
04 Jul 09
Facebook | openDemocracy
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If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings - Barack Obama - Cairo 2009
27 May 09
FT.com | Willem Buiter's Maverecon | Lessons from the global financial crisis for regulators and supervisors
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Niccolo Machiavelli “Never waste the opportunities offered by a good crisis.”
Goethe / Mirror….mirror… « wizdompath
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Goethe
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“Children should get two things from their parents: roots and wings.”
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the zen blog: Rilke: good, fair, and happening
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It is a book completely devoid of auctorial arrogance. It is a rite of reverence of life, which is good and fair through its happening."
the zen blog: Rilke: duino elegy 1
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Toss out from your arms the void
Toward the spaces that we breathe; -- perhaps the birds
Will feel the thinned air with more intimate flight.
13 May 09
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Obama’s conservatism may not prove good enough
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“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Thus wrote the Sicilian writer Giuseppe di Lampedusa, in The Leopard
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