Quotations

"But there is one part of getting old we’re not so good at preparing for; one investment for which we don’t employ specialists, to ready us. Or even discuss in the pub. And it’s the pension plan of memories — our investments in mental souvenirs. We do not, it seems, regard the fact that, by the time we’re 70, we will be as a dragon, sitting on a lifetime’s hoard of hours and days. A dragon with four slightly dodgy knees, who doesn’t get around as much, and so spends most of its time just sitting. Just sitting with the past.

"No man should reach his final years full of regret, and abandoned ideas, and heart-aching disappointments, simply because he obediently played by the rules of “what a man should be”. Because there is no science, or physics, or rules, of what a man “should” be! You have signed no Man Contract; there is no one to report to. By the time you’re 70, everyone whose disapproval, ridicule or disappointment you feared will be long gone, or dead. There is no one who will give you a medal for your sad dutifulness. The approval you wanted will never come. Rebel now! While you still have the time!" Caitlin Moran

"[Adam] Smith believed that human beings had a natural sympathy with one another that led them to look beyond their immediate prosperity. He grasped that commerce, far from sundering people, draws them together into networks of mutual dependency." Daniel Hannan

"How on earth is it possible that someone blows up critical infrastructure on the territory of Europe and no one has a say, no one condemns, no one carries out an investigation?" Péter Szijjártó, Foreign Minister Hungary, talking about the Nord Stream pipeline

 

Hanjo Girke

@GirkeHanjo

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Jun 27

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@RWMaloneMD

There is no investigation because we are no independent nations but vassals. We all know who did it. Sweden wouldn't have blocked sharing its findings for "classified" reasons otherwise. We would not have prevented an independent investigation by the security council otherwise.

"Harvard itself calculated in 2013 that if it admitted students based on their academic qualifications alone, less than one per cent of its undergraduate student body would be black, as opposed to its then current 10 per cent black share. (That ten per cent is now up to 14 per cent, without any corresponding national rise in the test scores of black students.)” The Spectator