People give names to persons and things, and then suppose that if they know the names, they know that which the names refer to.
— Keiji Nishitani
Tag: Espresso
Face up to it..
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
—James Baldwin
A short drive into space
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
—Fred Hoyle
Enough: have more, or want less.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
— G.K. Chesterton
Foolproof design
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams
Ironical advantage of Mrs May’s weakness
The Chinese leader calculates that because Mrs May is weak domestically she cannot resist his demands. But she may be so weak she cannot give in to them.
From The Economist Espresso, dated 31 Jan 2018
Something special: George Weah
George Weah, the only African footballer to have won both the Ballon d’Or and FIFA’s World Player of the Year award, will net another prize today when he is inaugurated, after winning an election in December. His accession will also be a milestone for democracy in West Africa: it will be the first peaceful electoral transfer of power in Liberia since 1944.
From Economist Espresso, Monday 22 2018
Use my marker 