Thursday, 31 May 2018
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Outwitting Fate
The only way to be sure of catching a train
is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Monday, 28 May 2018
Sunday, 27 May 2018
Saturday, 26 May 2018
Mediocracy
The general tendency of things throughout the world
is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill,
Philosophy
Friday, 25 May 2018
Thursday, 24 May 2018
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Monday, 21 May 2018
Sunday, 20 May 2018
Sleeping Dogs Lie
A person may cause evil to others
not only by his actions
but by his inaction,
and in either case
he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
— John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill,
Philosophy
Saturday, 19 May 2018
Friday, 18 May 2018
Uniformation
There's a danger in the internet and social media.
The notion that information is enough,
that more and more information is enough,
that you don't have to think,
you just have to get more information,
gets very dangerous.
— Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Thursday, 17 May 2018
The Wheel Is Still Spinning, But The Hamster Is Dead
Anda a ver si el gallo puso (Venezuelan Spanish)
Literally: Go see if the rooster laid an egg.
Means: Go away, stop bothering me.
Means: Go away, stop bothering me.
Estás más solo que un colegio de noche (Venezuelan Spanish)
Literally: You’re more alone than a school at night.
Means: You’re completely alone.
Une vache espagnole (French)
Literally: A Spanish cow.
Means: Someone who speaks French with a poor accent.
Literally: You’re more alone than a school at night.
Means: You’re completely alone.
Une vache espagnole (French)
Literally: A Spanish cow.
Means: Someone who speaks French with a poor accent.
Hún dàn (Mandarin)
Literally: Mixed egg.
Means: You bastard.
Literally: Mixed egg.
Means: You bastard.
Pónte las pilas (Spanish)
Literally: Put your batteries in.
Means: Get on with it.
Literally: Put your batteries in.
Means: Get on with it.
Qué mala leche (Argentinian Spanish)
Literally: What bad milk.
Means: How rude/unpleasant.
Literally: What bad milk.
Means: How rude/unpleasant.
Qué poca madre tienes. (Mexican Spanish)
Literally: How little mother you have.
Means: You’re so rude.
Literally: How little mother you have.
Means: You’re so rude.
Estás mandando fruta. (Argentinian Spanish)
Literally: You’re sending fruit.
Means: You’re talking nonsense.
Literally: You’re sending fruit.
Means: You’re talking nonsense.
Casse-toi (French)
Literally: Go break yourself.
Means: Get lost.
Literally: Go break yourself.
Means: Get lost.
Tōfu no kado ni atama wo utte shinē (Japanese)
Literally: Go hit your head on a corner of tofu and die.
Literally: Go hit your head on a corner of tofu and die.
Gey strashe di gen (Yiddish)
Literally: Go threaten geese.
Means: You don’t scare me.
Literally: Go threaten geese.
Means: You don’t scare me.
Gey kakken oifen yam (Yiddish)
Literally: Go take a poop in the sea.
Means: Go to hell.
Literally: Go take a poop in the sea.
Means: Go to hell.
Es más feo que un carro visto por debajo (Colombian Spanish)
Literally: He/she’s uglier than a car seen from below.
Literally: He/she’s uglier than a car seen from below.
Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben (German)
Literally: To not have all the cups in the cupboard.
Means: To be a bit of an idiot.
Literally: To not have all the cups in the cupboard.
Means: To be a bit of an idiot.
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Monday, 14 May 2018
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Saturday, 12 May 2018
Friday, 11 May 2018
Non-Conformity
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting:
the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Richard Feynman
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Free Will
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community,
but people wouldn't obey the rules.
— Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Monday, 7 May 2018
Follow The Leader
When people accept breaking the law as normal,
something happens to the whole society.
— Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Sunday, 6 May 2018
Saturday, 5 May 2018
Freedom vs Ethics
The only freedom I care about
is the freedom to do right;
the freedom to do wrong
I am ready to part with
on the cheapest terms
to anyone who will take it of me.
— Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Friday, 4 May 2018
Thursday, 3 May 2018
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
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