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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Memoir (1949), This I Remember, ch. 20 “The Last Term: 1944–1945”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #accommodation #adaptation #facereality #life #living #realworld #realitycheck
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time; the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-03-22), “In Front of Your Nose,” “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/29647/
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A quotation from Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Rogers Commission Report into the Challenger Crash, Appendix F “Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle,” sec. F5 (1986-06)More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5360…
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@lerk @BioGeoBryce @nolympia_muenchen @NOlympia_Hamburg @nolympiaberlin aaaargh😡diesen Wahnsinn nich auch noch hier. #falschinvestition #mullproduktion #emissionen #ausbeutung #überwachungsWahnsinn #Wucherpreise #touristenabzocke #bewohnerverdrängung #RusslandFührtNenAngriffskrieg #USAFührtNenAngriffskrieg #IsraelFührtNenAngriffskrieg #keineWaffenruhe #PlanetareGrenzen #facereality #liste_ist_unendlich_lang
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Not being able to control events, I control myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me.
[Ne pouvant regler les evenemens, je me regle moy-mesme: & m’applique à eux, s’ils ne s’appliquent à moy.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cohen (1958)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaine #outofcontrol #adaptability #adaptation #control #events #facereality #flexibility #reality #resilience #lackofcontrol
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
For years I have hoped that we could stop war as an instrument for settling any national and international difficulties. I have worked for it and shall continue to work for it. However, one has to face the world as it is and, without discarding one’s ideals, meet the realities of the day and keep on working for what one hopes will be a better future.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-05-17), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #dispute #facereality #foreignaffairs #ideals #internationalaffairs #internationalrelations #reality #realitycheck #war
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #facefacts #facereality #integrity #meaningoflife #satisfaction #selfawareness #selfdeception
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.
[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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The world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
Henry James (1843-1916) American writer
Essay (1874-04), “Iwan Turgéniew,” sec. 3, North American Review, Vol. 98, Art. 4Sourcing, notes: wist.info/james-henry/77745/
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Grosse Solidarität mit den Menschen von Blatten! 💔💚
Die letzten Jahrzehnte des Nichthandelns in der Klimakrise haben einen grossen Anteil an eurer Misere!
Diese Katastrophe könnte ein Weckruf sein!
#actnow #climatecrisis #menschengemacht #facereality #verantwortung #jetzthandeln #stopCO2 #endfossilfuels #endfossilfinance
@gov.ch @parlch @climatestrike_suisse @klimastreikschweiz @fridaysforfuture @fridaysforfuture.de
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Speech (1770-12-04), “Argument in Defence of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/1456/
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A quotation from Baldwin, James:
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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https://wist.info/baldwin-james/1227/#quote #quotes #quotation #awareness #change #facereality #meme #recognition #reform
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Things must be faced, even in order to be forgiven; the great objection to "letting sleeping dogs lie" is that they lie in more senses than one.
-G K Chesterton#Forgive #HandleTheTruth #FaceReality #Lie #Liar #Face #GKChesterton #Quotes
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/misc.html#2H_4_0034 -
@KonstantinNotz
Kann mich nicht erinnern, dass die Grünen bei den Angriffskriegen der USA bzw. Nato ebenso auf andauernde Verurteilung der Aggression bestanden.
Doppelmoral?
Ansonsten ist die aktuelle Militarisierung der dt. Politik mehr als erschreckend. Offenbar macht das auch von dem Landwirtschafts(!)-Ministerium nicht halt.
Zudem wird ein neuer dt. Militarismus diesen Krieg nicht beenden (sondern ggf. sogar verschlimmern!).
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@janalbrecht
Realitätsverweigerung?
Die Zahlen sind auch an anderer Stelle ähnlich!
Grüne Kriegsgeilheit hat eben ungeile Folgen...
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A quotation from Malcolm X:
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You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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https://wist.info/malcolm-x/31545/#quote #quotes #quotation #blindness #facereality #hypocrisy #ideology #integrity #meme #patriotism #tribalism #willfulignorance #wrong
