#exemplar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #exemplar, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
It seems to me that America’s objective today should be to try to make herself the best possible mirror of democracy that she can. The people of the world can see what happens here. They watch us to see what we are going to do and how well we can do it. We are giving them the only possible picture of democracy that we can: the picture as it works in actual practice. This is the only way other peoples can see for themselves how it works; and can determine for themselves whether this thing is good in itself, whether it is better than they have, better than what other political and economic systems offer them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Memoir (1961), The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Part 4, ch. 41 “Milestones”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/28…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #coldwar #democracy #example #exemplar #foreignaffairs #internationalaffairs #leader #model #rolemodel
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I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made who proffer consolation to mankind in their self-created miseries.
[Heil dem Manne, der stets helfend durchs Leben ging, keine Furcht kannte und dem jede Aggressivität und jedes Ressentiment fremd war! Von solchem Holz sind die Idealgestalten geschnitzt, die der Menschheit Trost bieten in den Situationen selbstgeschaffenen Leidens.]Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 1, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8472…
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
We must show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
India and the Awakening East, Conclusion (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/28…
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A quotation from Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-03 “Housekeer’s Guide” (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/81875/
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This morning we had a report of an important system not working properly.
Tracking back to yesterday afternoon, a colleague made a change to bring that system back into compliance with our managed config (this happens all the time) but that broke it.
In our whole-dept Incidents chat where it was being discussed, they explained what they did, why, and accepted the responsibility.
An exemplar to some colleagues who always obfuscate their responsibilities!
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Hey. I hear you and I am a tenant on #Country, so forgive me if I don't believe I need an #education on that bit of the program.
My question related directly to an #OAM being returned to the #crown by the recipient.
My sense of his point is and was then, that if OAMs represent the crown spilling #nuggets on the #floor around the table to keep the #Blackfellas quiet, then #returning it in recognition of the nuggets was the correct thing to do. I agree with him.
Did you know that fat #Clive was made a #national living #treasure? So was #Dr #Karl.
Were I Dr Karl, I would have asked to be removed from the list of people so honoured, since if Clive could get one, they were meaningless.
Are you with me so far?
Anyone given an honour by the crown, is meaningless unless the crown accepts the fact that the land was not #conquered nor ceded by the #people who were here, leaning on #spears, watching the #invasion and having no idea what it meant, until the #muskets and #canon and #ropes and #gibbets began to take their toll.
I don't disagree that many Blackfellas have had a good run and ended up with #doctorates and so on, but they are precious few and far between.
Prof #Langton for example could not be considered an #exemplar of our #First #Nations in general. Wonderful #representative, but not a great example of Blackfellas #reality.
For that you'd need to visit a #prison, find a 40 year old #Blackfella with 20 years jail behind him or her. That is your example of Blackfella reality.
So, I agree with you that we have lots of Blackfellas who have done well. The fact that they are so #celebrated should give you a clear idea of where I stand.
Address the issue of the #OAM mate. The rest is seriously #irrelevant in the moment.
Have a great day.
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oop looks like i failed to mention #phonology in my intro
i'm an #exemplar and #NeuralNets guy by disposition but i think there's real value in #formalist approaches (à la Bale & Reiss, or the #subregular stuff); they offer a distinct mode of understanding (in a vaguely #Marr way but i've come to believe the notions of "levels" has been detrimental overall)
some day i'll get it together enough to get a piece on #explanation and #pluralism of #theory written somewhere
