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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
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- Kultur er om man tager med på lejrskole.
Karen Jespersen
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Jeg læste en række af F. Scott Fitzgeralds noveller (som iøvrigt ikke kan anbefales varmt nok IMO) i min sommerferie. I samlingen var som bonus optrykt et kolossalt essay fra The American Magazine, september 1922, hvor Fitzgerald som 25-årig, rig, succesfuld og verdensberømt blev bedt om at gøre status i essayet "What I Think and Feel at 25". Essayet er fantastisk skrevet, fuldt af paradokser, provokationer og påståligheder:
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For one thing I do not like old people - They are always talking about their "experience", and very few of them have any! But it is the old folks that run the world, so they try to hide the fact that only young people are attractive or important.
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But I am really not old enough to begin drawing morals out of my own life to elevate the young. I will save that passtime until I'm sixty, and then, as I have said, I will concoct a Scott Fitzgerald who will make Benjamin Franklin look like a lucky devil who loafed into prominence. Even in the above account I have managed to sketch a outline of a small but neat halo. I take it all back. I am twenty-five years old. I wish I had ten millions dollars, and never had to do another lick of work as long as I live.
Kerneindsigten
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But as I do have to keep at it, I might as well declare that the chief thing I've learned so far: If you don't know much - well, nobody else knows much more. And nobody knows half as much about your own interests as you know.
If you believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - and you go after that thing alone, you end up in jail, in heaven, in the headlines, or in the largest house in the block, according to what you started after. If you don't believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - you go along and enough money is made out of you to buy an automobile for some others fellow's son, and you marry if you've got time, and if you do you have a lot of children, whether you have time or not, and finally you get tired and you die.
If you're in the second of the those two classes you have the most fun before you're twenty-five. If you're in the first, you have it afterward.
Også lidt lol om ægteskabet:
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...after thirty, both husband and wife know in their hearts that the game is up. Without a few cocktails social intercourse becomes a torment. It is no longer spontanenous; it is a convention by which they agree to shut their eyes to the fact that the other men and women they know are tired, dull and fat, and yet must be put up with as politely as they themselves are put up with in their turn.
I have seen many happy young couples - but I have seldom seen a happy home after husband and wife are thirty. Most homes can be divided into four classes:
1st. Where the husband is a pretty conceited guy who thinks that a dinky insurance business is a lot harder than raising babies and that everybody ought to kow-tow to him at home. He is the kind whose sons usually get away from home as soon as they can walk.
2d. When the wife has got a sharp tongue and the martyr complex, and thinks she's the only woman in the world that ever had a child. This is probably the unhappiest home of all.
3d. Where the children are always being reminded how nice it was of the parents to bring them into the world, and how they ought to respect their parents for being born in 1870 instead of 1902.
4d. Where everything is for the children. Where the parents pay much more for the children's education than they afford, and spoil them unreasonably. This usually ends by the children being ashamed of the parents.
And yet I think that marriage is the most satisfatory institution we have. I'm simply stating my belief that when Life has used us for its purposes it takes away all our attractive qualities and gives us, instead, ponderous but shallow convictions of our own wisdom and "experience".
Her citeret fra The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Bryant Mangum p. 280 og pp. 282-3.
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The doer alone learneth
- ukendt pragmatiker ganske vist
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"At jeg er univerets midte / er ingen hazaderet dom / jeg slutter mig rent logisk til det / resten er jo udenom"
- Piet Hein
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her et par til denne ganske udemærkede tråd:
Den aktuelle
"Vi jøder har et hemmeligt våben i kampen mod araberne - vi har ingen steder at flygte hen"
Gloda Meir
John Glenn, the first American astronaut in space, was once asked to describe his (presumably profound) thoughts just before taking off into space. "I looked around me and suddenly realized," Glenn replied, "that everything had been built by the lowest bidder!"
"Vilkårene kan jo kun ændres på de nuværende vilkår"
Niccoló Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
The three articles of Civil Service faith: it takes longer to do things quickly, it's more expensive to do them cheaply and it's more democratic to do them in secret.
Permanent secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby ("Yes Minister.")
Den til Q i ens liv
Der er en Troldom paa din Læbe,
Der er en Afgrund i dit Blik,
Der er i Lyden af din Stemme,
En Drøms ætheriske Musik.
Der er en Klarhed paa din Pande,
Der er et Mørke i dit Haar,
Der er en Strøm af Blomsteraande
Omkring dig, hvor du staar og gaaer.
Der er en Skat af evig Viisdom
I Smilehullet paa din Kind,
Der er en Brønd, en Sundhedskilde
For alle Hjerter, i dit Sind.
Der er en Verden i dit Indre,
En sværmerisk, chaotisk Vaar -
Som jeg umulig kan forglemme,
Som jeg tilbeder og forstaaer.
Emil Aarestrup
Og den morsomme:
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
Jack Handy
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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›Det kunne da være sjovere at høre lommefilosoferne herinde komme
›med deres egne udgydelser ;o)
Ja det kunne være meget fint men der er jo ikke mere at hitte på. Alle kloge ord er jo allerede skrevet af de heldige asner der blev født mens der endnu var ideer at få. Tillad mig at citere selveste vor lands nationaldigter:
Der var en ung Mand, som studerede til at være Digter, han vilde være det til Paaske, gifte sig og leve af Digteriet, og det er, vidste han, bare at hitte paa, men han kunde ikke hitte paa. Han var født forsilde, Alt var taget op før han kom til Verden, Alt var der digtet og skrevet om.
"De lykkelige Mennesker der fødtes for tusinde Aar siden!" sagde han. "De kunde sagtens blive udødelige! lykkelig selv Den der fødtes for hundred Aar siden, da var der dog endnu Noget at digte om; nu er Verden digtet ud, hvad skal jeg kunne digte ind!"
mvh
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"Det er kun minder, der altid forbliver de samme.
Alt andet forandrer sig.
Når du kommer til Rom igen, vil du næppe genkende byen, og de mennesker du elskede, vil have ændret sig.
Det kan man ikke forhindre, det er det naturligste i verden."
Renius, i Conn Igguldens "Cæsar: Roms Porte"
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Every country has the government it deserves. If for some reason, stupid or nasty people ride on the neck of a wise and honest nation, the people will send these worthless individuals to the depths of hell as soon as possible. But if a bad government stays in power for a longer period, then it is clear that the problem lies with the nation. In this case, the people themselves are vile or uncultured.
Mvh
Søren
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›"Det er kun minder, der altid forbliver de samme.
›Alt andet forandrer sig.
›Når du kommer til Rom igen, vil du næppe genkende byen, og de
›mennesker du elskede, vil have ændret sig.
›Det kan man ikke forhindre, det er det naturligste i verden."
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›Renius, i Conn Igguldens "Cæsar: Roms Porte"
hvilket jo er sammenfattet eviggyldigt i vendingen "evigt ejes kun det tabte" :-)
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Et skræmmende og desværre også meget rammende citat i disse tider, udtalt af Hermann Göring under Nurnberg-processerne:
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
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Jep. Det er noget som ledere til stadighed har brugt og bruger overalt i verden. Man skal bare läre sig selv at väre opmärksom paa det.
McCarthy, Stalin, Sadam, Bush, Milosevics, Ahmadinejad, ..............
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Nå, jeg faldt lige over det her i indbakken!
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/Skribentens tanker ved kærlighedens komme
Dit helende nærvær er
svøbt som fløjl
om min sjæl, når vi
går hånd i hånd i hånd
- amorinernes dans.
Charlottenlunds Forts grønne
mod et solramt Øresund
det ene uden det andet kun
en halv /Skribent
- sjælens hjemkomst, vi to.
Som forårets klarhimmel
friskblæsende rammer du mig
et stenhjerte smeltes af
din blidhed
- livets transcendens, i dit blik.