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Good morning, Francis

Always, I think "Yeah, that's true." I don't believe this two-worder can ever be burnt out. It seems to be the ur-aphorism from which all others are derived. Are you still in France? How do the French say "**** happens"? I'd bet even the remote Innuit have a way of saying this--with, perhaps with a dozen variants on ****?

Hi, Miklos!

Yes, I'm in France for the moment.

We debated with friends the better way to translate "**** happens" in French, but it seems a bit difficult to find a simple saying to express that.

However, what comes more often is: C'est la vie or ça arrive.

But if you want to say "we are in deep ****", than we also have dozens of expressions for that.

You miss more by not looking than not knowing.

(Origin unknown to me, and I ain't looking for it.)

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors. - Henry Becque, Querelles litteraires, 1890

Any pursual that requires thought is not worth pursuing. - Trevor Sanso

“We strive less hard to be happy than to make people think we are happy”- La Rochefoucauld

“The strength to admit our faults goes some way to compensating for them”

“Something is complicated only inasmuch as its unfamiliar to us-the mistake people make is to believe that “complicated” is an immoveable quality that something possesses”

“Your memory doesn’t serve you well if you can’t occasionally forget things”

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. ~Robert Brault

“For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.”

Arne Garborg

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

If we can agree on the patterns why can't we agree on the labels ?
Filipe de Albuquerque

Knowledge is information on how information connects.
Filipe de Albuquerque

1 - Thinking with words is like driving a car with a manual.
2 - Silence is not the absence of thought but of noise.
3 - Being God is the closest thing to being nothing.
4 - A full glass is empty of choices, an empty glass is full of possibilities.
5 - I like water so I can forget I'm a solid. (kind off)
6 - Religion is entertainment taken seriously.
7 - Science is the religion of hope for working people.

Filipe de Albuquerque

Time is the form of change.
Filipe de Albuquerque

You ought to quote your life before you quote someone's else's...but then authenticity is either foolish expectation or alien to communication.

Filipe de Albuquerque

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Frank Zappa, I believe McT.

If **** had value the poor wouldn't have arseholes.

Henry Miller.

It seams Henry was not familiarized with the fertilizer industry...in fact today it is well know that entire ecosystems have collapsed for lacking a good spread of **** here n there as soon the big mammals were hunted to extinction. Mozambique comes to mind for example. Thankfully human groups are experts in producing loads of it in all forms and manners so no risk to our society comes from lacking it.
In fact the problem with poor people is precisely that they don't know that **** has value while Industrials and the likes deal with it like experts.

This is concern today because I heard they have banned certain books deemed "politically incorrect" in Canada and Europe.