“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 62
“The British…used to regard foreigners as either a comic turn or a sexual menace. To learn a European language…was, at best, to seek to acquire a sort of girls’-finishing-school ornament, at worst, to capitulate feebly to the enemy.”
Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
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Source: The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), VI - The Reformation (1957), p.g. 14
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
Bob Marley
(1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
(1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist
In Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp Reviews http://www.curtainup.com/wtf07.html, Williamstown Theatre Festival (Summer 2007)
Source: Physicists
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Context: Violent excess is sure to provoke violent reaction; and the worst possible policy for our country would be one of violent oscillation between reckless upsetting of property rights, and unscrupulous greed manifested under pretense of protecting those rights. The agitator who preaches hatred and practices slander and untruthfulness, and the visionary who promises perfection and accomplishes only destruction, are the worst enemies of reform; and the man of great wealth who accumulates and uses his wealth without regard to ethical standards, who profits by and breeds corruption, and robs and swindles others, is the very worst enemy of property, the very worst enemy of conservatism, the very worst enemy of those “business interests” that only too often regard him with mean admiration and heatedly endeavor to shield him from the consequences of his iniquity.
“This is the knowledge I was able to acquire and learn without any elementary schooling”
Girolamo Cardano
(1501–1576) Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
The Book of My Life (1930)
Context: My father, in my earliest childhood, taught me the rudiments of arithmetic, and about that time made me acquainted with the arcana; whence he had come by this learning I know not. This was about my ninth year. Shortly after, he instructed me in the elements of the astronomy of Arabia, meanwhile trying to instill in me some system of theory for memorizing, for I had been poorly endowed with the ability to remember. After I was twelve years old he taught me the first six books of Euclid, but in such a manner that he expended no effort on such parts as I was able to understand by myself.
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Danielle Steel
(1947) American author of romance novels
