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  1. A quotation from Homer

    O prince, in early youth divinely wise,
    Born, the Ulysses of thy age to rise
    If to the son the father’s worth descends,
    O’er the wide wave success thy ways attends
    To tread the walks of death he stood prepared;
    And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
     
    [Τηλέμαχ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ὄπιθεν κακὸς ἔσσεαι οὐδ᾽ ἀνοήμων,
    εἰ δή τοι σοῦ πατρὸς ἐνέστακται μένος ἠύ,
    οἷος κεῖνος ἔην τελέσαι ἔργον τε ἔπος τε:
    οὔ τοι ἔπειθ᾽ ἁλίη ὁδὸς ἔσσεται οὐδ᾽ ἀτέλεστος.]

    Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
    The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 2, l. 271ff (2.271-274) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49782/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #telemachus #heir #father #daring #dare #worthiness #success #child #commitment #fulfillment #parent #wordsanddeeds

  2. A quotation from Mark Twain

    How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it!

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905-12), “Eve’s Diary,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 1

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/28734/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #eve #contentment #credit #deserve #deserving #earn #enjoyment #fulfillment #gratification #happiness #pleasure #result #satisfaction #work

  3. Add *yourself* in a list! I hope to track my new posts more easily than the “Posts” (but only some of them and idk which ones),
    “Posts and replies” (but only some of different ones?!), and “Media” tabs on my profile!

    The “Media” tab lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/media is #WhatIf instagram but not owned by Mark Zuckerberg as part of Facebook and Meta,
    who wouldn’t let his kids use his products and owns a billionaire’s zucker bunker in Hawaii? (Number links btw: byjus.com/us/math/million-bill and cfinancialfreedom.com/what-is- )
    Hawai’i, a state he is decidedly not from? Havvaii: a sovereign nation before we (americans) invaded and stole it?

    How much is 1 billion of anything, anyway? mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-w
    (US scale: 1,000 million or 1,000,000,000 or 10^9, so 1 with 9 zeros before the decimal point.
    UK scale: one million million or 1,000,000,000,000 or 10^12, so 1 with 12 zeros before the decimal point.)

    But… *any* billionaire has that much. And keeps it. forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko
    If you had the power to eliminate hunger somewhere, would you?

    .

    theconversation.com/why-the-su
    but also forbes.com/sites/justcapital/2 If people are incentivised to be unsustainably selfish, and they choose to act unsustainably selfish, then both are unsustainable for everyone and need to be changed.

    But what does a sample of US citizens
    (and residents? And visitors? Nah, only people born there with passports matter, probably) think?
    vox.com/recode/2021/3/30/22357

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    Anyway the list thing is cool. Still can’t find my Like a Dragon, Irate Yakuza in Hawaii post tho. Wait.

    lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/1131873

    THE JOYS OF CLEAR ALT TEXT COMPOSITION! JOY UNTO ALL WHO CARVE MEANING INTO MULTIMEDIA, MAKING WAY FOR THOSE WHO MAKE WAVES!

    #odd #strange #HI #unusual #recentlyMyselfIsUnusual #money #cash #personalFinance #finance #economy #wealth #hoard #hoarder #hoarding #insatiable #incontent #noncontent #fulfil #fulfillment #fulfilled

  4. "Let humanity perish rather than the principle! This has been the motto of utopians and fanatics throughout the ages. Socialism, interpreted in this way, has become a religion […] which in the nineteenth century is the least revolutionary of all."

    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1851, in "Idée générale de la Révolution au XIXe siècle"

    #moralBeauty #moralGround #highGround #idealism #vertue #utopia #righteous #righteousness #justness #morals #morality #satisfaction #fulfilment #fulfillment #permeation #infusion #earnest #serious #vote #politics #SpotAndDiscard #ideology #revolution #Proudhon