A quotation from Joseph Addison
When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42
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#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event
- French: circonstance
- German: der Umstand
- Italian: circostanza
- Portuguese: circunstância
- Spanish: circunstancia
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Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 330ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]
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MEDEA: Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives! CREON: That would depend on circumstances, I imagine. [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Φεῦ φεῦ, βροτοῖς ἔρωτες ὡς κακὸν μέγα. ΚΡΈΩΝ: ὅπως ἄν, οἶμαι, καὶ παραστῶσιν τύχαι.] After Creon has spoken of how both love of his country and his children requires him…
#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event
- French: circonstance
- German: der Umstand
- Italian: circostanza
- Portuguese: circunstância
- Spanish: circunstancia
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker’s mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)
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I came across a guitar student's email; unread incoming, it was. I thought of her recently, or generally whenever.
Wonder what "CPT" meant? Probably Captain. CPT Kris. It's coming back to me now! Or Star Trek (it was 20 yrs ago or higher)
Kris [edit Kristen W...]
She was a black-Jewish, guitar-playin', star-gazin', comi-con attending [i'd bet money on that] type of chick!
She said "Oy!"
i said, "WTF is that?"
True Romance
#Circumstance
I am 99.9 percent confident that I was taught through popular culture that I can't be attracted to the black astronaut woman. The reasoning being that
"why aren't you attracted to the /other/ black women?"**
I dunno.
But there's something about the black #NASA astronauts on #AmazonPrime (aka freevee?). channel is #Nasa+ (as in ..plus at the end. i dunno. Freevee was better.
That's also because you can't be a successful black man and date a white woman.
These things are the truths, no?
Is this not how we are supposed to behave?
It's like a Peter-Paul Almond-Joy.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
That is: Do whatever you wan because you're allowed to, and encouraged to do so. Until you're specifically discouraged to do so, because ... you know.
Circumstances
**EDIT
No: B/C successful black men and women "must" propagate
#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event
- French: circonstance
- German: der Umstand
- Italian: circostanza
- Portuguese: circunstância
- Spanish: circunstancia
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