Yahooey“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” — John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
#JohnIrving #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Seriousness
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A.J. WestSeriousness is weight added after contact.
A face put on
so the moment doesn’t end too easily.
It holds things open
to prove they mattered.
Truth doesn’t need it.
eicker.news ᳇ tech news#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
E F HavenSeriousness imparts an ethical imperative. There is an obligation to unlock the horizon and an obligation to do so in the correct way, so as not to lose sight of it. This comes from the seeming transcendent value bestowed on the object from the horizon. When one takes a job seriously, the obligation colors one's experience in a moral light, revealing coworkers who are not merely lazy but also immoral in their disregard for the work's importance, for example.
WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Robert Holmes
SARAH JANE: You’re serious, aren’t you?THE DOCTOR: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it.
Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 11×01 “The Time Warrior,” Part 3 (1973-12-29)
More info about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80074/
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📎🐸ZhSigma@332ppm≅Σx,x∈S={🌱💚🇪🇺λP(θ|y)⁂}learn-languages-world-lifeAnd therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
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Solemnity is the fool’s shield and buckler.
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1637 / 1051 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78201/
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Gerd_Brodowski#usa #israel #iran : #war / #media / #journalism / #seriousness
„will“ or „would“…?!?
LeonDuStarthe psychotronic triple by EZ Loopaz, Bart, Seriousness
