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Grim Squeaker

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Nice thread :bday:

 

In a horrible translation from Alexander Kushner:

 

One does not chose one's time

One lives and dies with it

No platitude is worst than

whining and crying about it

as if you could have exchanged

that time for this on a market square...

 

in a horrible translation from Anna Akhmatova:

 

If only you knew the sort of trash

from which the poems grow...

Just like a dandelion by a fence

 

in a horrible translation from Gorodnitckiy:

 

Betrayal, betrayal

The unhealed burn on my soul

It wailed and it wailed

And it wailed till it tired -

the horn's cry over our dead -

Why do you need a cruisade

when your army coat's smoking

from gunshot wounds on your back?

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Guest Aristothenes

Actually, that eye for an eye leaving the whole world blind originally came from the Torah.

But there should be an amendment:

An eye for an eye would leave the whole world blind, but a HELL of a lot smarter.

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Okay, some of my favorite quotes from secular ol' Albert...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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"Don't wish to be normal. You'll only waste your precious time in futile frustration. Wish to be great! That at least you have a fighting chance for."

 

-- Miles Naismith Vorkosigan

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