Quotes Worth Quoting
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Been doing a fair bit of reading recently and somehow ended up reading European history and also semiotics
A quote that appeared in both subjects was " . . . verbum e verbo sed sensum exprimere de sensu" (St Jerome)
Ironically itself, something that in translating should not be translated
Basically it's why we sort of understand what the feck Seul is usually banging on about but have no clue as to why . . .
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The one that really does stick with me and stops me from becoming a complete c**t is this:
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
Lord knows I need to remind myself regularly of this when trying to find a parking space or queueing up in a french supermarket. I do believe i'd have killed someone by now had it not been for these immortal words.
Oh and this one always brings a smile to my face:
“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.” Winston Churchill -
glad to read you Geo, i see back to your old tricks
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@Geo:
That's a very balanced view Bertoni
Do you also subscribe to Non-possession?
It is one of the principles of Satyagraha that Gandhi also preached.
If that's the case then I'd be happy to receive your IH gear . . . I think we're about the same size . . .
Nice try my friend, nice try
I couldn't ever subscribe to a no-possession philosophy…not sure many today could. I do however try and buy products that are local and seasonal (vegetables, fruit and until recently Atelier LaDurance gear!) or made in a non exploitative manner and of high quality (that's what i'm doin hanging around here). I don't buy much but what I do buy tends to respect these criteria where possible (don't rate my chances of finding an ethical, non-exploitative high quality tv!).
If YOU decide to get all "non-possessional" though (I hear it's VERY rewarding spiritually ;)), please forward your nice threads to my good self
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Feeling you on a lot of things there, bertoni… I have thé most luck with my local veggie/ hippy shop... Fresh (veg) burgers, outrageously heavyweighing sour dough based bread (and tons to choose between), lovely huge chunks of tempeh; the lot...
And yeah: I'm trying to get only high quality, ethically made gear in my life... Or just buy the non-ethical stuff 2ndhand... -
. . . If something is genuinely worth the money then it's genuinely worth having . . . Even a shoddy pair of ditas and some poorly fitting IH shirts (and multiple mister freedom products)
And that goes for food and drink too - nothing like a good bottle of wine and some well farmed meat (sorry Seul)
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sorry dude - i am happy enough to buy IH gear from the forum, but it is highly unlikely I will ever part with what i have now
. . . as for the ditas - well they've got me into the trouble i'm in . . . refer to our conversation in that thread . . . so i'll only be adding to the range
however - i do agree, we've had a decade or so of cheap consumerism, and i think a lot of folks have learned to figure out what's good and what wants to masquerade as good
so i guess getting back to the topic
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit" . . . Aristotle
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My frined sent me this today:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt.
