Diesel

• Smart listens to the head. Stupid listens to the heart.
• Smart had one good idea and that idea was stupid.
• Stupid is trial and error. Mostly error.
• Smart may have the brains, but stupid has the balls.
• Smart has the brains, stupid has the balls.
• Stupid might fail. Smart doesn't even try.
• Smart has the plans, stupid has the stories.
• If we didn't have stupid thoughts we'd have no interesting thoughts at all.
• Only the stupid can be truly brilliant.
• We're with stupid.
• Smart may have the answers, but stupid has all the interesting questions.
• Smart says No. Stupid says Yes.

Be stupid. DIESEL

平山郁夫

Oscar Wilde

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

In the case of enlightened people, they do not plan for the future because they have no desire to provide security for themselves. They do not need to know the pattern of the future anymore. They have conquered the preconception of ‘future.’ They are fully in the now. The now has the potential of the future in it, as well as that of the past.

Matthieu Ricard

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

Richard Layard

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Daniel Kahneman

Many people will admit that they made a mistake. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

Eckhart Tolle

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the now.

______

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

西住

おもひやるこゝろはみえではしのうへにあらそひけりな月の影のみ

西行

ことゝなく君こひわたるはしのうへにあらそふ物は月の影のみ

Bernard Leach

Every artist knows that he is engaged in an encounter with infinity, and that work done with heart and hand is ultimately worship of life itself.

三輪壽雪

私は、ニンジンを、虫にやるために作っている。虫は全部は食べないで、必ず私が食べる分を残しておいてくれる。だから私はこうして、虫が残してくれたニンジンを食べているんです。

ag9889

森永純

William Eugene Smith

Antonin Scalia

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
_____

But it is blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral.

Charles Robert Darwin

Under nature, the slightest differences of structure or constitution may well turn the nicely balanced scale in the struggle for life, and so be preserved. How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will be his results, compared with those accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Can we wonder, then, that Nature’s productions should be far “truer” in character than man’s productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?

福岡正信

無耕起、無肥料、無農薬、無除草

Nwonknu Rohtua

My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction.

Alan Alexander Milne

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."

胡锦涛

中国人民从来都认为，在那场不幸的战争中，包括被迫走上战场并失去生命的日本士兵在内，日本人民也是战争的受害者。

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The present inequitable and unfavorable conditions run counter to the very nature of human kind and move in a direction which contravenes the truth and the goal behind the creation of the world.
It is no longer possible to inject thousands of billions of dollars of unreal wealth to the world economy simply by printing worthless paper assets, or transfer inflation as well as social and economic problems to others through creating severe budget deficits.
Approaches in which realization of the interests of certain powers is considered as the only criteria to weigh democracy, and using the ugliest methods of intimidation and deceit under the mantle of freedom as a democratic practice, and approaches through which sometimes dictators are portrayed as democrats, lack legitimacy and must be totally rejected.

Andrei Konurov

It is wild that the main critic of Iran's nuclear program is the US, the only country which has actually used nuclear weapon. The US nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed over 150,000 people. Iran never attacked other countries since its Islamic Revolution, while during the same period of time the US has launched aggressions against Grenada, Panama, Iraq (twice), Somali, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan, and also bombed Sudan. Curiously, Iraq's alleged possession of a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction served as the pretext for the US invasion of the country, though the arsenals have never been found.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We are committed to defend the sovereignty of nations in a collective fashion, but that did not prevent the outbreak of 65 wars of aggression with the UN doing nothing to curb them, including eight major wars that claimed the lives of millions of people, perpetrated by a veto holding member of the Security Council. The states that we thought would repel aggression protect peoples turned out to the ones that used aggressive force while enjoying the veto.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Whatever may be its intellectual, its literary, its artistic or its musical aptitudes, as compared with other races, the Anglo-Saxon branch of the Nordic race is again showing itself to be that upon which the nation must chiefly depend for leadership, for courage, for loyalty, for unity and harmony of action, for self-sacrifice and devotion to an ideal. Not that members of other races are not doing their part, many of them are, but in no other human stock which has come to this country is there displayed the unanimity of heart, mind and action which is now being displayed by the descendants of the blue-eyed, fair-haired peoples of the north of Europe.

Jean-Henri Fabre

Que vois-je là, à mes pieds ? Un bel oiseau vient de s'envoler de sa cachette sous l'auvent d'une large pierre. Bénédiction du Ciel, il y a un nid de crins et de fines pailles. C'est le premier que je trouve, la première des joies que me vaudra l'oiseau. Et dans ce nid, il y a six oeufs, joliment groupés à côté l'un de l'autre ; et ces oeufs sont d'un bleu magnifique, comme trempés dans une teinture de céleste azur. Terrassé de bonheur, je m'étends sur la pelouse et contemple.

Madison Grant

While democracy is fatal to progress when two races of unequal value live side by side, an aristocracy may be equally injurious whenever, in order to purchase a few generations of ease and luxury, slaves or immigrants are imported to do the heavy work. It was a form of aristocracy that brought slaves to the American colonies and the West Indies and if there had been an aristocratic form of governmental control in California, Chinese coolies and Japanese laborers would now form the controlling element, so far as numbers are concerned, on the Pacific coast.

Gary Hayes

Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

snortmonkey

She reminded me of my best friend growing up - always living in a dream world. Figures shifting when they move- Like you see ghosts do in those old cheap horror films. Looking fragmented, slowly. .... Now cut..

and, you

She lives in a dream world

Erik Prince

Look, I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for Blackwater.

A more telling criticism of the company may come from the State Department officials whom Blackwater protects. Certainly, they are grateful to be guarded by former Navy SEALs and other Special Forces veterans, rather than green, young National Guardsmen. Blackwater likes to boast, accurately, that it has never lost a client. Still, some American diplomats—and not a few professional soldiers in the U.S. military—look askance at the heavy-handed swagger of the Blackwater guards, who often sport goatees and tattoos, wear wraparound shades, brandish their weapons and have been known to run anyone off the road who gets in their way.

Reid Walker

In many respects, worldsourcing is both a response to and the product of the forces of globalization – its catalysts – which are causing massive macro- and socio-economic shifts in the global business and consumer landscape. By catalysts, I’m referring to shifts in capital flows and investments, talent and intellectual property, energy and resource allocation, connectivity and information transparency, GDP and consumer purchase influence, and innovation, to name a few.

We’re witnessing no less than a paradigm shift in the global business and consumer landscape. The ability to interpret, navigate and respond to these catalysts will define the future success of every business aspiring to position itself for success in the post-globalization environment.

David Hale

The current business cycle will go down in the history books as one which confirmed that leadership in the global economy is now shifting from the old industrial countries to the emerging market countries. During 2007, the developing countries produced over 52% of global growth, compared to 37% during the late 1990s. China alone produced 17.8% of global GDP growth last year, compared to 14.6% for the U.S. economy. The developing countries’ share of total world output has risen to 29% this year from 18% in 1995. The World Bank is forecasting that the economies of developing countries will grow 7.4% this year, compared to 2.2% in the old industrial nations.

Mark Foster

To succeed in today's global environment, companies must understand the trends driving the bulti-polar world and continually adapt their positioning, operational models and culture accordingly.

Alexander Gelman

私が思い描く、ポストグローバルの世界では、伝統や文化はこれまで以上に重要な役割を果たすことになる。

いま、グローバル化された世界に私達は生きている。すべてがお互いにつながり、統一化されている。その弊害の典型が昨秋の金融危機だ。

ポストグローバルの世界は少し違う。それは、それぞれが経済的にも、文化的にも、政治的にも独立し、共存しながらお互いよい影響を与え合って発展する社会である。

กรุงเทพมหานคร

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สัขขะทขัตติยะวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์)

Jamahiriya

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Ghost Busters

Do you believe in UFO's, astral projection, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full transmedium, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?

Ah, if there is a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you tell me.

加藤まさを

月の沙漠をはるばると　旅の駱駝が行きました

金と銀との鞍置いて　二つならんで行きました

金の鞍には銀の甕　銀の鞍には金の甕

二つの甕はそれぞれに　紐で結んでありました

さきの鞍には王子さま　あとの鞍にはお姫さま

乗った二人はおそろいの　白い上着を着てました

曠い沙漠をひとすじに　二人はどこへいくのでしょう

朧にけぶる　月の夜を　対の駱駝でとぼとぼと

砂丘を越えて行きました　黙って越えて行きました

Ambivalence

realistic and romantic

cold and passionate

serious and funny

sensitive and indifferent

old and young

________

mysterious and attractive

cute and sexy

fragile and strong

sensitive and daring

careful and naive

ambivalent and definite

hot and cold

pretty and beautiful

nice and good

________

almighty and eternal

guide and direction

past and future

light and darkness

sage and seeking

skeptic and saint

penultimate and multipresent

literal and limited

idealistic and pragmatic

shining and moving

omniwhere and omniwhen

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

cute-love-quotes

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

___

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Augustine of Hippo

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Tolman Geffs, Scott Peters

Abraham Lincoln

1831 Failure in business

1832 Defeated in his bid as state legislator

1832 Unemployed

1833 Failure in business again

1834 Elected as state legislator

1835 His fiancee passed away

1836 Suffer a nervous breakdown

1838 Defeated for Speaker

1838 Defeated in his bid as chair of state legislation

1840 Defeated for Elector

1843 Defeated for Congressional Nomination

1845 Defeated in House Representative candidate nomination

1846 Elected as House Representative

1848 Defeated in his bidding for a second term in the house

1849 Sought a job in the state office of estates, but was refused

1854 Lost his bid for a seat in the Senate

1856 Defeated in Vice President candidate nomination

1858 Once against defeated in Senate elections

1860 Elected as the President of the United States

Trygve Gulbranssen

There are old customs and many matters wherein care must be taken; each thing must be begun on its proper day, with due regard to all upon and under the earth. There are so many forces at work around Christmas time.

Knut Hamsun

And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me... everything was silent — everything. But up in the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent. I listened so long to this ceaseless faint murmur that it began to bewilder me; it was surely a symphony from the rolling spheres above. Stars that intone a song. . . .

Alexander Lange Kielland

To the clerks the young Consul was a being of quite another sphere. Every head was bowed to him when- ever he passed through the office, and each one seemed to feel that the cold blue eyes penetrated everything and everywhere — books, accounts, and letters, even into their own private secrets. It was believed that he knew every page in the ledger, and that he could quote intricate accounts, column by column, and if there was even the slightest irregularity to be found anywhere, they would wager that it could not escape the young Consul's eye.

Abercrombie & Fitch Milano

George Carlin

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Global Information Industry Center

In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.

kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, xona, weka, vunda, uda, treda, sorta, rinta, quexa, pepta, ocha, nena, minga, luma ...

John Parkinson

I have always believed that knowledge management wasn't something you did, but rather something you got when you did a whole slew of other things right.

I also believe that the key enablers are a subtle combination of culture, process and technology, which makes it just about impossible to build a KM "product" or even a KM "platform." Many places I have worked or consulted disagreed and spent lots of resources and dollars on KM efforts that delivered neither knowledge nor management to any appreciable degree.

In the few places that listened and believed, I saw some modest successes, but the culture factor is really hard to "engineer." And without that factor you tend to get better collaboration and isolated pockets of excellence, but not the Holy Grail.

And KM "success" is pretty hard to define and harder to measure. Plus, there are few instant wins, so you also have to be lucky early to get enough momentum going and last long enough to be merely good later. It's a tough problem.

... approach of building the right cultural context (share ideas freely), the right processes (modeled on small, collaborative, research teams and constant interactions) and a judicious investment in technology ...

Harvey Shapiro

I'm on Water Street in Brooklyn,

between the Brooklyn Bridge

and the Manhattan Bridge,

the high charge of their traffic

filling the empty street.

Abandoned warehouses

on either side.

In the shadowed doorways, shades

of Melville and Murder Incorporated.

Five o'clock October light.

Jets and gulls in the fleecy sky.

Climbing the hill to Columbia Heights,

I turn to see the cordage

of the Brooklyn Bridge, and behind it

the battle-gray Manhattan.

James Dickey

If you would run

If you would quicken the city with your pelting,

Then line up, be counted, and change

Your body into time and with me through the boxed maze flee

On soft hooves, saying all saying in flock breath.

Take me there.

I am against you

And with you: I am second

Wind and native muscle in the streets my image lost and discovered

Among yours: lost and found in the endless panes

Of a many-gestured bald-headed woman, caught between

One set of clothes and tomorrow's: naked, pleading in her wax

For the right, silent words to praise

The herd-hammering pulse of our sneakers,

And the time gone by when we paced

River-sided, close-packed in our jostled beginning,

O my multitudes.

We are streaming from the many to the one

Theodore Dreiser

The fact significant is that every scene possesses that vital instability which is the charm of existence. It is forever changing. The waters are running, the winds blowing, the light waxing and waning, and in the very ground such currents are at work as produce and modify all the visible life and color that we know. Great forces are at work, strong ones, and our own little lives are but a shadow of something that wills activity and enjoys it, that wills beauty and is beauty. The scenes that we see are purely representative of that.

Robert Burns

O, MY Luve's like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June.

O, my Luve's like the melodie,

That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,

So deep in luve am I,

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi' the sun!

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve,

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my luve,

Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

Pablo Neruda

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where

I love you simply, without problems or pride

I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

Sappho

Without warning

as a whirlwind

swoops on an oak

Love shakes my heart

pixelcitizen

Φιλία, έρωτας, αγάπη, sex. Άλλοτε υπερισχύει κάποιο από αυτά, άλλοτε μηδενίζεται και άλλοτε συνυπάρχουν όλα μαζί.

Το συναίσθημα που δημιουργείται από όλα μαζί είναι ένα.

British Library

Most of us lie and get lied to every single day. We say we're fine when we're actually having a bad day. We lie to protect the feelings of others, to get out of trouble and to get what we want. Our newspapers lie, our politicians lie, our parents lie. Considering how surrounded we are by lies, we ought to be experts in telling fact from fiction: but are we?

Allen S. Weiss

Appearances do not dissimulate the truth: they are nothing but themselves, the ruins of Being. "Truth" is just a second order phenomenon, a distortion of distortion, a necessary illusion.

Pablo Colapinto

Imaginary Informations can be conceived then as comprising both expected and unexpected realities and unrealities. Imaginary Informations can easily be created and manipulated with words, cameras, computers, hapticinterfaces, and the internet, and are ultimately the components of a flexibletheoretical communication system that adapts to environmental pressures by modifying them in an open-loop. The concept can be applied to multimedia technologies, artistic practice, and political posturing. In a general sense, they represent the composition of a reformed reality: from the pseudo-anonymity of online social networks to audience interactivity and conspiratorial delusion. This consistent reformation of reality is nothing new, and has always resulted in an artistic fascination with deceit, secrets, and lies.

Yve Alain Bois

Just as there is no message entirely devoid of noise, no information can ever exist that does not have to rise above an ocean of noise.

U.S. State Department

If the sender intends to deceive, then the information is disinformation, whereas an innocent error may result in misinformation.

Martin Libicki

In the case of misinformation, the receiver believes what is not true, whereas with disinformation, the receiver is unable to believe what is true. It is not necessarily up to the sender to decide whether information is mis- or dis- and that it is a question of perception, rather than intent.

副島隆彦

私、副島隆彦は、初めからずっと、 ... が勝つと予測していた。

私、副島隆彦は、すでに ... ごろに、... について書いたから ...

私、副島隆彦は、誰も騙していない。

私、副島隆彦は、真っ正直に本当のことだけを書いてきた。

私、副島隆彦は、先に書いたとおり、...　を、ずっと支持している。

私、副島隆彦は、ずっと今も彼らに嫌われているが、... を書いた。

私、副島隆彦は、そろそろ、許さない、という気になってきた。

私、副島隆彦は、...

Damian Thompson

This is counterknowledge: misinformation packaged to look like fact.

George St. Clair

Many of these differences can be accounted for by the continuous operation of two processes, which may be called (1) the Choice of Mates ; and (2) the Law of Battle, of which the first bears some analogy to methodical selection in man, and the second to man's unconscious selection : or perhaps it would be truer to say that both correspond to man's unintentional selection. (More Strictly, both correspond to sexual selection in man. But sexual selection in man is partly methodical and partly unconscious.)

Stephen G. Alter

The interlinked origins of darwin's unconscious selection concept and the application of sexual selection to race

Alfred Vulpian

Les differences reelles qui existent entre l'encephale de l'homme et celui des singes superieurs, sont bien minimes. Il ne faut pas se faire d'illusions a cet egard. L'homme est bien plus pres des singes anthropomorphes par les caracteres anatomiques de son cerveau que ceux-ci ne le sont non seulement des autres mammiferes, mais meme de certains quadrumanes, des guenons et des macaques.

Author Unknown

My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's suprising how often they head in your direction.

中体西用

中学为体、西学为用

西学东渐

西学东渐的历程 (第一个阶段; 第二个阶段), 西学东渐的媒介 (来华洋人: 传教士, 其他来华洋人; 出洋中国人: 旅行家及商人及外交官, 留学生; 媒体: 书籍的出版流通, 期刊, 报纸; 新式学校; 港、澳及其他口岸租界的角色; 日本在西学传入中国的角色), 中国人对西学看法的变化 (明末清初; 晚清时期对西学看法的变化; 民国时期西学东渐的论战及影响), 各学科的西学东渐 (哲学; 数学; 天文学; 地理学和地质学; 生物学; 物理学; 化学; 医学; 应用科学及技术; 政治学及政治思想; 社会学及社会思想; 经济学及经济思想; 法学; 军事; 历史学; 文学; 音乐; 美术), 对中国的影响 (学术的影响; 思想文化的影响; 政治的影响; 社会的影响; 经济及日常生活的影响), 西学东渐影响下的著作

Jusuf Wanandi

It's a much more complicated problem we are facing. Islam, of course, is one of the factors that we have to win on our side, and Indonesia will be playing a critical role in that.

沈世顺

中日韩已经形成了非常紧密的经济和贸易关系，以2008年为例，中日贸易额超过2600亿美元，中韩贸易额接近1900亿美元，日韩贸易额也接近1000亿美元。

要建立东亚合作机制较为容易，但要建成共同体实体还有很长的路要走，还有许多问题要正确对待：如成员国问题、地区外国家加入问题、主导权问题、热点问题的处理等等。不过，只要互信增加，上述问题应该都不难解决。

遠藤周作

この巴里の家も路も石の集積だし、その石に一つ一つの長い長い歴史の重みがある。巴里にいることは、その重みをどう処理するかという生活の連続です。ぼくみたいに二年もいると、この重みと圧力が肉体にも心にも苦痛になってくるんです。

___

巴里に来る日本人には三つの型があるようですな。その重みを全く無視する連中と、その重みを小器用に猿真似する奴と、それからそんな器用さがないために僕みたいに轟沈してしまう人間と。

___

こんなつまらん小さな美術館一つ入っても、僕ら留学生は長い世紀にわたるヨーロッパの大河の中に立たされてしまうんだ。僕は多くの日本人留学生のように、河の一部をコソ泥のように盗んでそれを模倣する建築家にはなりたくなかっただけなんです。河そのものの本質と日本人の自分とを対決させなければ、この国に来た意味がなくなってしまうと思ったんだ。

夏目漱石

三四郎は自分がいかにもいなか者らしいのに気がついて、さっそく首を引き込めて、着座した。男もつづいて席に返った。そうして、

「どうも西洋人は美しいですね」と言った。

三四郎はべつだんの答も出ないのでただはあと受けて笑っていた。すると髭の男は、

「お互いは哀れだなあ」と言い出した。「こんな顔をして、こんなに弱っていては、いくら日露戦争に勝って、一等国になってもだめですね。もっとも建物を見ても、庭園を見ても、いずれも顔相応のところだが、－－あなたは東京がはじめてなら、まだ富士山を見たことがないでしょう。今に見えるから御覧なさい。あれが日本一の名物だ。あれよりほかに自慢するものは何もない。ところがその富士山は天然自然に昔からあったものなんだからしかたがない。我々がこしらえたものじゃない」と言ってまたにやにや笑っている。三四郎は日露戦争以後こんな人間に出会うとは思いもよらなかった。どうも日本人じゃないような気がする。

「しかしこれからは日本もだんだん発展するでしょう」と弁護した。すると、かの男は、すましたもので、

「滅びるね」と言った。

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国家は大切かもしれないが、そう朝から晩まで国家国家といってあたかも国家に取り付かれたような真似はとうてい我々にできる話ではない。

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事実出来ないことをあたかも国家のためにするごとく装うのは偽りである。

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元来国と国とは辞令はいくらやかましくっても、徳義心はそんなにありゃしません。詐欺をやる。誤魔化しをやる、ペテンにかける、滅茶苦茶なものであります。

x魂x才

漢魂漢才

中国の文化や技術を受け入れるのに、仏教を基にした考え方すべてをも受け入れ、発展していく

和魂漢才

中国の文化や技術を受け入れるのに、日本の考え方を大切にし、両者を調和させ発展していく

洋魂洋才

西洋の文化や技術を受け入れるのに、キリスト教を基にした考え方すべてをも受け入れ、発展していく

和魂洋才

西洋の文化や技術を受け入れるのに、日本の考え方を大切にし、両者を調和させ発展していく

無魂洋才

西洋の文化や技術を受け入れるのに、これといった考えも持たず、うわべだけ掠めとって発展していく

Duncan J. Watts, Steven Strogatz

Average Path Length = (ln N / ln K) where N = desired number of nodes and K = mean degree (i.e., acquaintances per node; assumed to be an even integer). Thus if N = 6,000,000,000 (90% World pop.) and K = 30 then Degrees of Separation = 22.5 / 3.4 = 6.6. (Assume 10% of population is too young to participate.)

Ouisa Kitteridge (John Guare)

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

Frigyes Karinthy

A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. One of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. We should select any person from the 1.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth—anyone, anywhere at all. He bet us that, using no more than five individuals, one of whom is a personal acquaintance, he could contact the selected individual using nothing except the network of personal acquaintances.

Innovation Time Off

As a motivation technique (usually called Innovation Time Off), all Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them. Some of Google's newer services, such as Gmail, Google News, Orkut, and AdSense originated from these independent endeavors. In a talk at Stanford University, Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, stated that her analysis showed that 50% of the new product launches originated from the 20% time.

Mojito

Dag Hammarskjöld

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Sylvie Poisson

La beauté est en premier lieu, une sensation de bien-être et de plénitude. Elle nous donne la chance d’exprimer notre vrai soi et d’être authentique. Elle nous vient directement du cœur et est en harmonie avec l’humanité. L’aboutissement de cette beauté intérieure est exceptionnel et remarquable. Lorsque nous avons la chance de rencontrer une personne qui vit pleinement cette beauté, nous avons le désir immédiat d’être à ses côtés. À son contact, nous oublions immédiatement nos difficultés quotidiennes et nous sommes totalement bien avec nous-mêmes.

Lorsque nous sommes arrivés dans ce magnifique monde, c’est à dire le jour de notre naissance, nous avions tous les mêmes droits fondamentaux qui sont le droit à l’amour, à la beauté, au bonheur, à l’abondance, à la prospérité, à la confiance, à l’estime de soi, etc.

(La vraie beauté commence à l’intérieur)

梅田望夫

従業員一万人の企業といえば立派な大企業であるが、この企業が一日稼動すると八万時間が価値創出のために使われる計算になる。「一万人×八時間」の人数を増やしながら、時間を短くしていくとどうなるだろう。十万人から四十八分ずつ時間を集めることができれば八万時間になる。百万人ならば一人四分四十八秒でいい。一千万人なら二十八・八秒。一億人ならば三秒弱である。つまり従業員一万人の企業の社員が持つ一日フルに働くのと同じ価値を、ひょっとしたら一億人の時間を三秒づつ集めることでできるかもしれないのだ。

「（≒無限大）×（≒無）＝ Something」

放っておけば消えて失われていってしまうはずの価値、つまりわずかな金やわずかな時間の断片といった無に近いものを、無限大に限りなく近い対象から、ゼロに限りなく近いコストで集積できたら何が起こるのか。ここに、インターネットの可能性の本質がある。

Cornelis Disco, Barend van der Meulen

In 1964, Gordon E. Moore, research manager of Fairchild Semiconductor, observed a regular periodic doubling of the number of gates" (a measure of complexity), and claimed, by extrapolation, that this would continue. This prediction has come true so beautifully, that nowadays we speak of "Moore's Law," as if it were a law of Nature. The validity of this law cannot be understood from the technical procedures by which the chips are made. The fact that the law holds so well is an effect of the way actors (in industry, in science and in government) judge their own and each others' accomplishments with respect to Moore's Law predicts. They direct their efforts towards achieving the predicted values. Laboratories evaluate and plan their efforts in terms of Moore's Law; when there is danger of specifications falling short at the predicted moment, extra effort is expended. Firms use the law to guide investment decisions in specific technologies; for example whether or not to develop products that need chips with the predicted capacity - such as calculators or compact disc players. Governments are willing to provide subsidies in order to help firms avert the danger of not meeting the predicted value. All actors exert themselves to measure up to the predicted competition and to stay in the race. Moore's Law is the yardstick for the behavior of chip producers and governments in Japan, the United States and Europe, and it shapes their mutual dependency in the strategic game they play with one another.

Tnaveler Ton

Antonyms of relevant are inappropriate, irrelevant and unsuitable.

Marine Knežević (UN Poster)

It is not wrong to be different,

it is wrong to be treated differently if you are.

Lucie Lamarche, Eric Tistounet

Il apparaît tout d’abord utopique de penser que, concernant des violations de droits visant à garantir les humains contre l’exclusion sociale, économique et culturelle, la plupart des victimes, en situation de pauvreté, de mauvaise santé et/ou de carences éducatives, pourraient seules affronter le labyrinthe de procédures nationales (à plusieurs degrés), puis régionales et enfin internationales/universelles (sans exclure les mécanismes sectoriels) susceptibles de reconnaître leur bon droit. Les victimes les plus défavorisées ont donc rarement accès à ces procédures.

Thierry Meyssan

... je veux développer le débat démocratique, y défendre mes idées et en réfuter d’autres. Précisément, le débat démocratique ne se développe que lorsque l’on accepte de se confronter aux gens dont on ne partage pas les idées.

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J’ai toujours activement combattu les idéologies d’exclusion, que ce soit le racisme ou l’antisémitisme, l’apartheid ou le sionisme, etc.

Michel Chossudovsky

Since the early 1980s, the "macro-economic stabilization" and structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF and the World Bank on developing countries (as a condition for the renegotiation of their external debt) have led to the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people. Contrary to the spirit of the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 which was predicated on “economic reconstruction” and stability of major exchange rates, the structural adjustment program has contributed largely to destabilizing national currencies and ruining the economics of developing countries.

Internal purchasing power has collapsed, famines have erupted, health clinics and schools have been closed down and hundreds of millions of children have been denied the right to primary education. In several regions of the developing world, the reforms have been conducive to a resurgence of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and cholera. While the World Bank's mandate consists of "combating poverty" and protecting the environment, its support for large-scale hydroelectric and agro-industrial projects has also speeded up the process of deforestation and the destruction of the natural environment, leading to the forced displacement and eviction of several million people.

Shlomo Sand

One of the most effective techniques adopted to ridicule or marginalize one’s ideological opponents is to create a caricatured and extreme version of their thesis.

________

As is well-known, a religious community cannot possess historical ownership rights over a land, whereas a people can.

Hugo Blanco, 中沢清二

昔アラブの偉いお坊さんが

恋を忘れた　あわれな男に

しびれるような　香りいっぱいの

こはく色した　飲み物を教えてあげました

やがて心うきうき　とっても不思議このムード

たちまち男は　若い娘に恋をした

コンガ　マラカス　楽しいルンバのリズム

南の国の情熱のアロマ

それは素敵な飲みものコーヒー　モカマタリ

みんな陽気に　飲んで踊ろう

愛のコーヒー　ルンバ

Hugo Blanco, Jose Manzo Perroni

Cuando la tarde languidece, renacen las sombras
y en la quietud los cafetales vuelven a sentir
esta triste canción de amor de la vieja molienda
en el letargo de la noche parece decir...

Una pena de amor y una tristeza
lleva el zambo Manuel en su amargura
pasa incansable la noche moliendo café

T-Bone Walker

they call it stormy monday, yes but tuesday is just as bad

wednesday is even worse; thursday is awful sad

the eagle flies on friday, saturday I go out to play

sunday I go to church where I knee down and pray

and I say, lord have mercy, lord have mercy on me

just trying to find my baby, won't you please send her on back to me

John Hamre

This session today - of course, this is the start and, I would argue, the most important part of it because we're trying to really say, what are we trying to do ... where are we going, what are we really planning for? What kind of a future do we have to anticipate? And how do we structure that ...

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Finally, we have to balance between current needs and future needs, between things like current operations and readiness and investment in capabilities for the future: research, development, procurement, et cetera.

Veronica Shoffstall

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean security,

And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure ... that you are really strong, and you really do have worth.

And you learn and you learn ... with every good bye you learn....

Ken Irwin

Electronic Resource Management (ERM) refers to practices and software systems used by libraries to keep track of important information about electronic information resources, especially internet-based resources such as electronic journals, databases, and electronic books. The development of ERM became necessary in the early 2000s as it became clear that traditional library catalogs and integrated library systems were not designed to handle metadata for resources as mutable as many online products are.