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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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Plant-based foods can provide everything we need to thrive, and they're far more accessible than many people realise. 🌱
There's no justification for using animals for food - or for any other purpose. 🐮💚
#tolstoy #quoteoftheday #veganquotes -
Plant-based foods can provide everything we need to thrive, and they're far more accessible than many people realise. 🌱
There's no justification for using animals for food - or for any other purpose. 🐮💚
#tolstoy #quoteoftheday #veganquotes -
Plant-based foods can provide everything we need to thrive, and they're far more accessible than many people realise. 🌱
There's no justification for using animals for food - or for any other purpose. 🐮💚
#tolstoy #quoteoftheday #veganquotes -
Plant-based foods can provide everything we need to thrive, and they're far more accessible than many people realise. 🌱
There's no justification for using animals for food - or for any other purpose. 🐮💚
#tolstoy #quoteoftheday #veganquotes -
What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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#books #classics #tolstoy #quotes #booklover #booknerd #reader #readingcommunity #bookstodon -
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“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
Федор Михайлович Достоевский всюду искал сюжеты для своих произведений особенно, если рядом было казино. Вот вам дом, где жил Достоевский в Vevey, а когда он проигрывался в пух и прах бежал занимать к Льву Николаевичу, который отдыхал поблизости.
#достоевский #толстой #литература #dostoevsky #vevey #tolstoy #buch -
Федор Михайлович Достоевский всюду искал сюжеты для своих произведений особенно, если рядом было казино. Вот вам дом, где жил Достоевский в Vevey, а когда он проигрывался в пух и прах бежал занимать к Льву Николаевичу, который отдыхал поблизости.
#достоевский #толстой #литература #dostoevsky #vevey #tolstoy #buch -
Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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If you are able to see all the consequences of what you are doing, then what you are doing is not very important.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 6.2 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83808/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #actions #causeandeffect #consequences #effects #foresight #selfawareness #triviality #unimportance
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If you are able to see all the consequences of what you are doing, then what you are doing is not very important.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 6.2 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83808/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #actions #causeandeffect #consequences #effects #foresight #selfawareness #triviality #unimportance
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If you are able to see all the consequences of what you are doing, then what you are doing is not very important.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 6.2 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83808/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #actions #causeandeffect #consequences #effects #foresight #selfawareness #triviality #unimportance
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If you are able to see all the consequences of what you are doing, then what you are doing is not very important.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 6.2 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83808/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #actions #causeandeffect #consequences #effects #foresight #selfawareness #triviality #unimportance
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
