Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
You don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs were given.
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll
I like that one Duke...
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Nice Mumps.
“Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.”
Lisa Hoffman
The Greeks fight vigorously with European leaders in the meeting rooms and in the end all come out here to complain: 'Look at them, they will not lend us more money,' complains the Greek Minister of the motorcycle. 'We do not lend more money because they do not behave well,' defend the German, French, Spanish, Dutch, etc. 'But we promise that we will behave well', guarantee the Greeks. 'So cut in pensions ...', challenges the Dutch minister. 'No!', Insists Varoufakis. 'You see, that's why we do not lend money: who assures us that they will behave well?' Say the representatives of the European taxpayers.
Lagarde said that it takes an adult in the room to discuss with the Greeks. Well, I volunteer myself, I accept the challenge. If an adult is what everyone wants to end this discussion, I can be that adult: I have extensive experience I gained with my children for many years.
No maturity from all sides, both are like children discussing who started what, so our leaders are not so different from my children. I will send my older one to the next reunion, I bet she will behave better than them ...
Someone like me
Tired of the news about Greece.
Many American cities are going to face this soon or are facing it. That's what happens when a government make promises it cannot keep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham
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But it is very sad to see all European dreams dying in a swamp made of shit of all our leaders decisions.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
It was a day without thoughts only hopes some sadness and a bit of joy as everyday.
It was only a regular day
Ricardo Ferreira
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The case happened a week ago in Brighton, Colorado (USA) following an accident with a family van. The two year old was handed over to police Nick Struck by a nurse and was crying, barefoot and covered in gasoline.
To calm her, Struck decided to do what he always does with his own daughter, also two years, when she feels frightened: He started singing the American version of the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, twinkle in the sky." The moment was captured by a woman passing and shows the police pointing in the opposite direction of the accident to try to catch the girl's attention away from the tragedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCjJyiqpAuU
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.
Heidi Klum
When someone that is important to you dies in your arms - just you and him/her, and you're waiting for him/her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Someone Like Me
... So after my father died, I was waiting to see what the seer said would happen. A great and hilarious secret would be revealed.
To be honest, really did not believe it. But hoped. I wanted to find out what was really going on in that big bald head. It was my last chance, really.
But as you may have suspected, I did not discover anything. Nothing interesting or private was revealed. And yet it was not. And I think that will ever be. So I will never give that laugh that the seer said I would.
And never really even know my father, it is determined. It's a strange and sad thing to lose someone you've never really knew.
On the other hand, it gave me so many things I remember, good things he did, like buying me mini pies of chocolate pudding, and strange things like aluminum foil on the top of bottle of beer and the idea that, no matter how trivial they may be, all the stories are based on a story by Sartre. Probably even this is.
Excerpt from a Bruce Eric Kaplan history.
A Duke's English translation from http://www.msn.com/pt-pt/noticias/so...=mailsignoutmd
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
Julian Lincoln Simon
Kill or die. It is cruel but it happened. This was the option given to a boy who was approached on the street by a group of criminals.
Angel Ariel Perez, only 12 years, had just left school and went home when he was approached by a gang in the city of Guatemala.
The young man refused the first hypothesis and ended up paying with his life.
According to the "Mirror", the group handed him a gun and said that Angel would kill a bus driver or died there.
He refused and, weeping, said she would rather die. Angel, who had a dream to one day be an architect, was thrown from a bridge.
According to the same publication, although the fall he survived and was found 72 hours later.
There are some crimes that dead penalty seems to be to soft.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
Peter Drucker
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be punished in another, and contrast him with the inflexible soldier who does his duty faithfully, notwithstanding it occasionally wars with his private feelings. The conduct of one will be venerated and emulated, the other detested as a satire upon soldiership and honor.
WIlliam Jenkins Worth
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre
Sarah Robinson, a mother of six girls aged between 2 and 15 years. Since her husband died in 2012, Sarah and their daughters have gone difficulties: they live in the car, no money to buy clothes or shoes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adokCaJOuVg
Despite his good heart, the agent was forced to pass Sarah a fine in the amount of $ 300. The mother will be judged by robbery, but Mark believes the trial ends only with the payment of the fine.
Following the release of this story was created an account on behalf of the mother which are already contained $ 6,000, which will be delivered so you can take care of the children.
No one in here to write a thought.
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“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
Buddha
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.”
Max Lucade
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I never knew who had taken a beating.
All my acquaintances have been champions at all.
Who is there in this wide world that confess that once was vile?
I'm sick of demigods!
Where is there people in the world?
So just me that is vile and wrong on this earth?
I wish I hear from some human voice
Who confess not a sin, but an infamy;
Extrapolating the philosophical universe for the day to day, you do not feel nostalgia for one innocence? Or can, despite all the knowledge, be amazed with the things?
I do not know if surprise me with things, but I am never tired of that, though, it is the beauty of life and the world. Somehow, I'm always a little amazed.
I insist on the innocence-sophy dichotomy. In a particular instance, the sophy word, which commonly translates into wisdom, assumed the semantic content of sense. As the status of wisdom were equivalent to the wisdom. I do not know if it assumes a thinking divorced from the wonderful thing to: "eat chocolates with truth and take the silver paper, which is tin foil, lay everything to the ground, as I lay life.".
Difficult is to translate philosophy
Duke of Buckingham
One to Myshortpencil
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Mankind as no money to extract water in arid areas
but there is money to search for water in Mars ...
... the question is: is there intelligent life on Earth?
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“One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who..."
"Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?"
"Three sieves?" The man asks "What three sieves?"
"Let's try it" Socrates says.
"The first sieve is the one of truth, did you examine what you were about to tell me if it is true?" Socrates asks.
"Well no, I just overheard it" The man says.
"Ah, well then you have used the second sieve, the sieve of good?" Socrates asks "Is it something good what you're about to tell me?"
"Ehm no, on the contrary" the man answers.
"Hmmm" The wise man says "Let's use the third sieve then, is it necessary to tell me what you're so exited about?"
"No not necessary" the man says.
"Well" Socrates says with a smile "If the story you're about to tell me isn't true, good or necessary, just forget it and don't bother me with it.”
― Socrates
Due to some IT policy changes at my office, i just lost my main crunched and my primary cruncher (8 core and nice GPU) so my output will drop a great deal. Will mostly be down to a old quad core laptop (GPU melted from BOINC) and 2 quad core phones.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Some say it is a quote of Marcus Aurelius, some say it is not
but it is a nice quote...
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
There are days that mark the soul and people's lives for good (or bad) reasons.
You still around Duke?