Wednesday Quotes: Being Adventurous
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I’d Quote BB
if I hadn’t checked it.
“Where right becomes wrong, resistance becomes duty.” is often attributed to Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright and theatre director and poet but according to research it is not (source: Deutsche Welle).
With the internet and now AI, it becomes more and more important to be conscientious. Even though FB has stopped doing it and other people like Musk and Trump don’t want to have done.
FOWC with Fandango: Conscientious
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Full Hands
“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV Wednesday Quotes: Helping Hands
An Unexpected Quote
“I’m a Springbok fan. I came to love the game of rugby after I had left South Africa.”
German rugby fan, talking to the SABC.
Nine year ago a South African tv crew stumbled across a German who had travelled to Newcastle to watch the match between South Africa and Scotland. The interview (all of the 30 seconds) was broadcast in South Africa.
Double dipping for
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Interview and FOWC with Fandango: Quote
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The Flash
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
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To Help Without Asking Whom
One Word Sunday: Cross
Living on a Tiny Planet in a Small Solar System of a Not so Big Galaxy in One Universe in the Multiverse
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” “Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.” or in the same vein: “Absolute knowledge leads to pessimism. Art is the remedy for this.” “Das absolute Wissen führt zum Pessimismus: die … Continue reading Living on a Tiny Planet in a Small Solar System of a Not so Big Galaxy in One Universe in the Multiverse
And Now Accept this Gift
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
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A Picture Can Be Pleasant, Cheerful and Pretty
Die Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.
Paul Klee
I found two – rather different – translations of this quote. Then I tried my hand at it myself. Pick your favourite translation:
Art doesn’t reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible.
Art doesn’t reflect the visible but reveals.
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
And for the pure fun of it:
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A Thought for Eternity
Opera lovers might know E.T.A. Hoffmann from Jacques Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann or as the author of The Nutcracker. He was one of the most important and well-known German poets of Romanticism.
To really appreciate the quote one should know that “love” is feminine in German, whereas “thought” is masculine.
“What is space and time to love! Doesn’t she live in thoughts and does he recognise a measure?”
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