Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Homer is new this morning

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Homère est nouveau ce matin, et rien n'est peut-être aussi vieux que le journal d'aujourd-hui.


Homer is original this morning, and nothing is perhaps so old as today's newspaper.

From Charles Péguy's 'Notes on Bergson and Descartes' (courtesy of Laudator Temporis Acti.)

17 comments:

  1. Toma10 February 2023 at 20:19

    'Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.'
    'Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.'
    'Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.'

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    1. Political Refugee from the Global Village10 February 2023 at 22:55

      I like the first one very much. Who said it and said the other two?

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    2. Toma11 February 2023 at 01:03

      Péguy

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    3. Toma11 February 2023 at 01:10

      'I like the first one very much'

      I do too. I don't know what to make of the third one.

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  2. Toma10 February 2023 at 20:22

    You don’t have “all the time in the world.”
    You get one ticket to the ride, and today is the youngest you’ll ever be.
    Cernovich

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  3. Toma10 February 2023 at 20:23

    "My mom would say, 'If someone answers the door in a hotel robe and you're going for an interview, don't go in. But if you do go in, get the job'.

    Pamela

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    1. Political Refugee from the Global Village10 February 2023 at 22:53

      Hee hee.

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    2. Political Refugee from the Global Village11 February 2023 at 09:51

      Actually I don't really understand. I'm rather innocent. It sounds louche.

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    3. Toma11 February 2023 at 22:39

      FARROW: The spirit of honesty that runs through so much of your public life has sometimes blown up in your face a little bit. You faced a lot of criticism, in the midst of #MeToo reporting that was coming out in the last several years, when you suggested women need to protect themselves a little more. You told Megyn Kelly, “You know what you’re getting into when you go to a hotel room alone.” Do you feel like that was a healthy thought to introduce into the dialogue at that point?

      ANDERSON: I could even take it a step further. My mother would tell me—and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with—it takes two to tango. Believe me, I’ve been in many situations where it’s like, “Come in here little girl, sit on the bed.” But my mom would say, “If someone answers the door in a hotel robe and you’re going for an interview, don’t go in. But if you do go in, get the job.” That’s a horrible thing to say but that’s how I was. I skated on the edges of destruction, I just had this sense of value and self-worth. But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they weren’t taught that.

      https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/pamela-anderson-tells-ronan-farrow-how-she-survived-hollywood

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    4. Political Refugee from the Global Village12 February 2023 at 20:16

      Thanks. I always liked her.

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  4. Toma10 February 2023 at 20:23

    I have this inescapable feeling that the people in Washington are on the wrong side of history.
    Pedro L. Gonzalez

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    1. Political Refugee from the Global Village3 March 2023 at 21:21

      I hope so.

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    2. Toma3 March 2023 at 22:32

      There are some within the US foreign policy establishment who wish and work for the disintegration of the Russian Federation the way of the old Soviet Union. 

      They are in power now. By next year they may be out. In jail or in retirement. 

      How does objecting to this ephemeral policy choice of the current American administration make one a Putin aly? 

      With the next  American  president (DeSantis or Trump) running for office on an anti-war platform, US withdrawal from NATO becomes a real possibility.

      What if the US becomes Putin's ally in 2024?

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    3. Political Refugee from the Global Village4 March 2023 at 06:21

      Is that the esteemed Mr. Gonzalez or Senor Gonzales? I'd love the Russian Federation to break up and the Caucasus countries to become free - but it should not be the result of American machinations.

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    4. Toma4 March 2023 at 16:54

      That's Senor Don Tomas'.

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    5. Toma4 March 2023 at 19:20

      'I'd love the Russian Federation to break up'

      You are not alone:

      Today, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyryl Budanov turned 37 years old. He was presented with a cake in the form of a map of "dismembered" Russia, which was previously spotted in Budanov's office.

      https://glavcom.ua/country/incidents/budanov-na-svij-den-narodzhennja-viklav-znakove-foto-899990.html

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    6. Toma4 March 2023 at 19:29

      Russian disintegration is a dangerously dumb delusion
      BY CHRISTOPHER MCCALLION,
      02/03/23
      https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3837672-russian-disintegration-is-a-dangerously-dumb-delusion/

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