#indispensability — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/76109/ Iran’s Instability and the Gulf’s Indispensability | RUSI #april #Arab #Assad #Both #Click #countries #east #GCC #gulf #Hezbollah #Indispensability #instability #Iran #Iraq #Israel #Israeli #Lebanon #middle #monday #Syria
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is still more mistaken.
[Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui croit qu’on ne peut se passer de lui se trompe encore davantage.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶201 (1665-1678) [pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶93]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Thare iz no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies hiz plase iz quickly filled, and he iz soon forgotten.
[There is no man so necessary in this world, but that when he dies his place is quickly filled, and he is soon forgotten.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 “Variety: Bred and Butter” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/78261/
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A quotation from Margaret Atwood
Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7560…
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