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If you can keep your head when about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1957), “Introduction,” Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/7876/

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Kerr, Jean - Essay (1957), "Introduction," Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | WIST Quotations

If you can keep your head when about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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Fra Jan 15

Non è AI.
È proprio lui che risponde con eleganza e diplomazia ad un operaio contestatore della Ford.

#aplomb
#trump

🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉May 23, 2025

🎉 Ich freue mich, heute meinen Wortschatz um zwei elegante Begriffe erweitert zu haben: Aplomb & tremoliert. Man lernt nie aus! ✨ #VokabelnDesTages #Sprache #Lernen #Aplomb #Tremoliert

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aplomb
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/tremolieren
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/tremoliert

Aplomb – Wiktionary

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Soozcat Dec 26, 2024

Your occasional reminder that most adults are just #cosplaying #confidence. Most of us do OK when we're handling quotidian tasks, but I'anno, let glorious, gigantic Poseidon rise out of the waves and start issuing commands to the puny land-dwellers and we're not gonna shrug it off with our typical #aplomb and savoir-faire.

If we're #GenX we might offer him a blunt or something but that's about as chill as we get under the circumstances

WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 15, 2023

A quotation from #Pratchett , Terry:

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He didn’t say “That’s weird.” He wouldn’t have said “That’s weird” if a flock of sheep had cycled past playing violins. It wasn’t the sort of thing a responsible engineer said.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/25289/

#quote #quotes #quotation #analysis #aplomb #engineer #fluster #oddity #practicality #pragmatism #weirdness

Good Omens, "Thursday" (1990) [with Neil Gaiman] - Pratchett, Terry | WIST Quotations

He didn't say "That’s weird." He wouldn't have said “That's weird" if a flock of sheep had cycled past playing violins. It wasn't the sort of thing a responsible engineer said.

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