A quotation from Terry Pratchett
A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re travelling through beer.Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 22, The Last Continent (1998)
More info about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7995…
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"The truth is that drinking always and inevitably leads to one state: drunkenness. It admittedly provides considerable pleasure, sometimes almost sexual, but it remains a relatively immediate sensation which does not elevate the spirit. It is in no way an art. Nor is it a philosophy. It does not open other doors to understanding the world. It just makes you drunk. Full stop."
~ Claire Touzard in ‘Sans alcool’ (Without Alcohol)
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78567/
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Tokyo Weekender: Drunk American Tourist Damages Kyoto Temple Tied to Samurai Legend. “At around 6:20 a.m. on June 24, an intoxicated American tourist entered a centuries-old Zen temple in Kyoto and broke part of it. The man, whose name has not been released, wandered into Shoden Eigen-in, a subtemple of Kenninji in Higashiyama ward. Rather than using the main entrance, he entered through a […]
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…
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A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of "pleasure." That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it…
A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
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Last night I smote the winecup on a stone;
For such mad folly how may I atone?
The shatter’d cup, in mystic language, said,
“I was like thee, my fate shall be thine own.”
»
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https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74205/
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A quotation from Euripides:
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CHORUS LEADER: Ah! wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: δεινὸς γὰρ οἷνος καὶ παλαίεσθαι βαρύς.]
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https://wist.info/euripides/73316/
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A quotation from Euripides:
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CYCLOPS: Ha! ha! ha! I’m full of wine,
Heavy with the joy divine,
With the young feast oversated;
Like a merchant’s vessel freighted
To the water’s edge, my crop
Is laden to the gullet’s top.
The fresh meadow grass of spring
Tempts me forth thus wandering
To my brothers on the mountains,
Who shall share the wine’s sweet fountains.
Bring…
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/73197/
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Since the article fails to address the point, I wonder: do #cohealth's #HealthAndSafety policies address leaving female staff alone with intoxicated men? Has the additional risk of sexual and/or physical violence been deemed acceptable?
This isn't a simple rostering issue.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/man-hit-by-car-was-denied-help-by-sobering-up-service-over-lack-of-male-staff-20241112-p5kpyi.html #health #vicpol #intoxication #drunkenness #jermalisms
A quotation from Selden, John:
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ’tis not the eating, nor ’tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/selden-john/6482/
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