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Today's poem:

Carthage
- by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/821009532865167360/carthage?source=share

#poetry #loss #LetitiaElizabethLandon #archaeology #history #erasure #humanity #aspiration #carthage

Today's poem:

Carthage
- by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/821009532865167360/carthage?source=share

#poetry #loss #LetitiaElizabethLandon #archaeology #history #erasure #humanity #aspiration #carthage

Today's poem:

Carthage
- by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/821009532865167360/carthage?source=share

#poetry #loss #LetitiaElizabethLandon #archaeology #history #erasure #humanity #aspiration #carthage

NBA probe of Steve Ballmer, Clippers nears end with Sanberg sentencing https://www.rawchili.com/nba/750672/ #aspiration #Ballmer #Basketball #Clippers #defendant #fraud #FraudulentCompany #information #investigation #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #letter #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NbaProbe #sanberg #SanbergSentencing #SteveBallmer

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Strive to be the greatest Man in your Country, and you may be disappointed; Strive to be the best, and you may succeed: He may well win the race that runs by himself.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/43…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #aspiration #beyourbest #besteffort #competition #doyourbest #goal #goodperson #greatness #selfimprovement #target

A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work

A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work

Pablo Torre Wins Pulitzer Prize for Report on Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard Scandal https://www.rawchili.com/nba/726614/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #PabloTorre #PulitzerPrize

Clippers’ Steve Ballmer Tells Court He Was ‘Duped’ by Aspiration Founder https://www.rawchili.com/nba/718185/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #DallasMavericks #EndorsementDeal #JeromeMironImagn #JosephSanberg #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #SanAntonioSpurs #StephenWilson #SteveBallmer #TheNBA

In #life #true #aspiration in #raw #thoughts are just #playing the #role of unspoken #anchors towards #wisdom that came your way.

An #idea you did not ignore is a #blessing you let somebody else #embrace from within.

There is no such thing as #peace through #strength because to be strong in #focus is all that is needed to be at peace with that very #ideal as such.

In #life #true #aspiration in #raw #thoughts are just #playing the #role of unspoken #anchors towards #wisdom that came your way.

An #idea you did not ignore is a #blessing you let somebody else #embrace from within.

There is no such thing as #peace through #strength because to be strong in #focus is all that is needed to be at peace with that very #ideal as such.

A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

‘Conspiracy theories’: Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard denies that his endorsement deal was cheating https://www.rawchili.com/nba/317376/ #aspiration #AspirationPartners #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #EricThayer #intuit #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LawrenceFrank #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #SalaryCap #SteveBallmer

Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard denies his endorsement deal was cheating https://www.rawchili.com/nba/317076/ #aspiration #Basketball #case #Clippers #company #contract #EndorsementDeal #GoodPlayer #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LawrenceFrank #LeagueSalaryCap #Leonard #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBAInvestigation #QuestionMonday #service #team

Kawhi Leonard denies wrongdoing as NBA investigates his endorsement deal https://www.rawchili.com/nba/312352/ #aspiration #Basketball #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LawrenceFrank #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #TheNBA

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer continued to donate to Aspiration co-founder despite claims he was ‘defrauded’ https://www.rawchili.com/nba/310366/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #JoeSanberg #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBASalaryCap #PabloTorre #SteveBallmer

Inside the NBA investigation into Steve Ballmer’s Clippers https://www.rawchili.com/nba/309219/ #aspiration #Ballmer #Basketball #Clippers #company #contract #EndorsementDeal #GoodPlayer #IntuitDome #investment #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LeagueRule #LeagueSalaryCap #Leonard #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBAInvestigation #silver #team

LA Clippers say Steve Ballmer was ‘duped’ in latest twist in Kawhi Leonard case https://www.rawchili.com/nba/295540/ #aspiration #Basketball #CarbonCredits #Clippers #DallasMavericks #EndorsementDeal #FinancialServicesCompany #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #MarkCuban #NBA #PabloTorre #SteveBallmer

How LA Clippers, Kawhi Leonard, Aspiration controversy impacts Sixers https://www.rawchili.com/nba/290752/ #76ers #aspiration #Basketball #DennisWong #EndorsementDeal #IvicaZubac #JamesHarden #KawhiLeonard #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #PabloTorre #Philadelphia #Philadelphia76ers #Philadelphia76ers #SteveBallmer

Clippers rumors: Steve Ballmer urged to ‘get out of Kawhi Leonard business’ after ‘f***ing disaster deal’ https://www.rawchili.com/nba/289984/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #mavericks #NBA #SteveBallmer

Former Aspiration exec denies Leonard had ‘no-show’ deal https://www.rawchili.com/nba/282743/ #AndreiCherny #aspiration #Basketball #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBASalaryCap #TheNBA

Uncle Dennis was furious – Aspiration being late in paying Kawhi Leonard led to Los Angeles Clippers minority owner Dennis Wong’s investment | NBA News https://www.rawchili.com/nba/279719/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #ClippersMinorityOwner #DennisWong #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBAInvestigation #SteveBallmer #UncleDennis

Silver has broad powers to punish Clippers, says he’d be reluctant to at ‘mere appearance of impropriety’ https://www.rawchili.com/nba/277526/ #AdamSilver #AppearanceOfImpropriety #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #investigation #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #SteveBallmer

Kawhi Leonard’s uncle reportedly asked Toronto to get the player ‘no-show’ endorsements in 2019 https://www.rawchili.com/nba/276768/ #AdamSilver #aspiration #Basketball #DennisRobertson #EndorsementDeal #EndorsementDeals #KawhiLeonard #Lakers #LeBronJames #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #Raptors #SteveBallmer #TheTorontoStar #Toronto #TorontoRaptors #TorontoRaptors #UncleDennis

Podcast: OpenAI’s big Seattle deal; Steve Ballmer under NBA scrutiny; the irony in Google’s antitrust case - This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/podcast-openais-big-seattle-deal-steve-ballmer-under-nba-scrutiny-the-irony-in-googles-antitrust-case/ #losangelesclippers #antitrustruling #seattlestartups #searchmonopoly #kawhileonard #nbasalarycap #steveballmer #aspiration #microsoft #vijayraji #podcasts #aitalent

Podcast: OpenAI’s big Seattle deal; Steve Ballmer under NBA scrutiny; the irony in Google’s antitrust case - This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/podcast-openais-big-seattle-deal-steve-ballmer-under-nba-scrutiny-the-irony-in-googles-antitrust-case/ #losangelesclippers #antitrustruling #seattlestartups #searchmonopoly #kawhileonard #nbasalarycap #steveballmer #aspiration #microsoft #vijayraji #podcasts #aitalent

“Paid but not working” – Stephen A. Smith places Kawhi Leonard at the center of Los Angeles Clippers’ salary cap controversy | NBA News https://www.rawchili.com/nba/269913/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBAInvestigation #NBAScandal #NoShowDeal #SalaryCapControversy #StephenA.Smith

Clippers considered naming dome after bankrupt firm at center of Kawhi Leonard allegations https://www.rawchili.com/nba/269053/ #aspiration #AspirationPartners #Basketball #DenverNuggets #intuit #KawhiLeonard #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngelesTimes #MinnesotaTimberwolves #NamingRights #NBA #NBASalaryCap #RamonaShelburne #SteveBallmer

Clippers nearly gave arena naming rights to fraudulent company https://www.rawchili.com/nba/268644/ #aspiration #Athletic #Ballmer #Basketball #Clippers #ContractExtension #EndorsementDeal #FraudulentCompany #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #Leonard #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #part #player #right #SalaryCap #season #team

Rumor: Clippers used fraudulent company to pay Kawhi Leonard, circumvent salary cap https://www.rawchili.com/nba/264820/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #KawhiLeonard #LosAngeles #NBA #PabloTorre #SanAntonio #SanAntonioSpurs #SanAntonio #SanAntonioSpurs #spurs #SteveBallmer #TheSpurs #Toronto #VictorWembanyama

Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard’s name gets dragged in a “no-show” endorsement deal with a fraudulent company | NBA News https://www.rawchili.com/nba/264456/ #aspiration #Basketball #Clippers #EndorsementDeal #FraudulentCompany #KawhiLeonard #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #NBAChampionship #PabloTorreFindsOut #SalaryCapCircumvention #SteveBallmer

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #books #experience #goal #impossible #mortality #reading #surfeit #unattainable #aspiration

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #books #experience #goal #impossible #mortality #reading #surfeit #unattainable #aspiration

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #books #experience #goal #impossible #mortality #reading #surfeit #unattainable #aspiration

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #books #experience #goal #impossible #mortality #reading #surfeit #unattainable #aspiration

#Dritter #Bereich zwischen #privatem und #öffentlichem #Raum

#Hybrider #Bereich zur #Wahrnehmung von #Cyberspace, #Chatrooms, #Tweets
#Feld des #Vorspielen #Scharlatanerie, #Überhöhen, #Aspiration, #Heuchelei, #Lüge, #Böswilligkeit

#Gesellschaft der #Depression ist #permissiv: Lässt zu was #verboten war und macht #unfähig zu #begehren
#Unterscheidung zu #transgressiver #Struktur: #Reiz #Verbot zu #übertreten

Slavoj #Zizek - #Pandemie II, #Chronik einer #verlorenen #Zeit, S. 134 ff.

#Dritter #Bereich zwischen #privatem und #öffentlichem #Raum

#Hybrider #Bereich zur #Wahrnehmung von #Cyberspace, #Chatrooms, #Tweets
#Feld des #Vorspielen #Scharlatanerie, #Überhöhen, #Aspiration, #Heuchelei, #Lüge, #Böswilligkeit

#Gesellschaft der #Depression ist #permissiv: Lässt zu was #verboten war und macht #unfähig zu #begehren
#Unterscheidung zu #transgressiver #Struktur: #Reiz #Verbot zu #übertreten

Slavoj #Zizek - #Pandemie II, #Chronik einer #verlorenen #Zeit, S. 134 ff.