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We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to no one. And the arguments that come from simple natural reasoning in others, we think we would have found if we had merely glanced in that direction.
[Nous reconnoissons aysément és autres, l’advantage du courage, de la force corporelle, de l’experience, de la disposition, de la beauté: mais l’advantage du jugement; nous ne le cedons à personne: Et les raisons qui partent du simple discours naturel en autruy, il nous semble qu’il n’a tenu qu’à regarder de ce costé-là, que nous ne les ayons trouvees.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #blindspot #comparison #ego #intellect #intelligence #judgment #pride #reasoning #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #vanity #wits
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A quotation from Euripides:
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Alas, how right the ancient saying is:
We, who are old, are nothing else but noise
And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go,
And have no wits, although we think us wise.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/68620/#quote #quotation #quotes #dementia #elderly #henoed #mind #oldage #shadows #wits
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One more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
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One more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
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One more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
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One more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
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One more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
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Chrontendo 64
Dr. Sparkle is back with the 64th installment (Youtube, 55 minutes) of his quest to review every NES and Famicom game. He's pretty far in! In about ten episodes, he figures he'll reach the launch of the Super Famicom, which won't be the end of his journey but
https://setsideb.com/chrontendo-64/
#retro #bigfoot #captaintsubasa #chrontendo #drmario #drsparkle #famicom #jyuouki #mahjong #nes #nintendo #pictionary #pussnboots #rare #retro #snakerattlenroll #video #wits #youtube -
「 South Africa eyes half of $27bn contingency funds to cut debt
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Drawing down on the account in a low-growth-trapped economy like #SouthAfrica, where spending needs are increasing on a yearly basis, offers a short-term fix at a time when a longer-term fix solution is needed, said University of the Witwatersrand #Wits Business School professor Jannie Rossouw.
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The notion that “there is some pot of gold hidden in the #ReserveBank, and all that is needed is to figure out how to get into that pot of gold and bingo, our problems are solved, is very, very simplistic,” #Kganyago said on November 23. “At worst, it’s actually very reckless.”
Still, not making use of the account is “not sustainable either,” he said. “There must be an answer in between.”」
#EconomicPolicy #Elections2024 #ContingencyFund
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-africa-eyes-half-of-27bn-contingency-funds-to-cut-debt-2023-12-18