“Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.”
John Stuart Mill, ”On Liberty”
dec. 052023
OldSkull
dec. 052023
”Încerc un gest, un jalnic început,
De la persoana-a doua să te mut,
Aș vrea să te transfer și să dispar
Către persoana-a treia singular.
Căci eu cu tine nu mai pot vorbi,
S-au adunat prea multe inepții,
A-ți mai rosti porecla nu mai pot,
De azi ești ea, te-ai depărta de tot.
Și niște explicații – tuturor:
Eu pentru ea aș fi putut să mor,
Pe unde merg, îmi amintesc de ea,
Nu pot s-o uit, orice s-ar întâmpla.
N-am dreptul să o strig plângând “Rămâi!”,
Cât sunt de singur la persoana-ntâi.”Adrian Păunescu, „Singular”
dec. 042023
”S-au desfăcut în juru-mi, aprinşi iar trandafirii.
Desfă-ţi şi tu simţirea în bucuria firii.
C-un înger blond alături, ia cupa şi-o deşartă,
Căci îngerul cel negru al morţii-aşteaptă-n poartă.”Omar Khayyam, ”Trăiește-ți clipa! Căci clipa-i viața ta!”
dec. 042023
”Când este o pricină de greutate, ori de împotrivire, atunci se zbate inima ca apa ‘n stâncă. S’a văzut cucoană să poftească chiar pe unul de-ai noştri: măcar de-ar fi fost un Ţigan mândru; dar s’a întâmplat să fie o baragladină.”
Mihail Sadoveanu, ”Nopțile de Sânziene”
dec. 042023
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
dec. 032023
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm,
I’ve been kicked around
Since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive.
Well now, I get low and I get high,
And if I can’t get either, I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes.
I’m a dancing man and I just can’t lose.
You know it’s all right, it’s OK.
I’ll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive. Aah.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me,
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm,
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s OK.
And you can look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking,
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me,
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me,
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life going nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
I’m stayin’ alive. …
Compozitori: Maurice Ernest Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb, Barry Alan Gibb.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
dec. 032023
Got a job that’s okay
But they got me working night and day
Punching in, punching out
Is this really what life’s all about?
(What’cha gonna do, what’cha gonna feel?)
I don’t know
(What’cha gonna feel, what’cha gonna do?)
Ooh, won’t someone tell me
(What’cha wanna say, what’cha wanna do?)
There’s only one thing left to say
(What’cha wanna say, what’cha wanna say?)
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Oh, yeah
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Baby’s gone, all alone
Are you sad because you’re on your own?
Get that girl, party down
There’s so many good ones still around
(What’cha gonna do, what’cha gonna feel?)
I don’t know
(What’cha gonna feel, what’cha gonna do?)
Ooh, won’t someone tell me
(What’cha wanna say, what’cha wanna do?)
I guess there’s just one thing to say
(What’cha wanna say, what’cha wanna say?)
Woo
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Oh, yeah, ooh
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Oh
Hey it’s J.J, what you been doin’
You say your car broke down, the thing just isn’t movin’
J.J.J., don’t you know
When you’re down there’s just one way to go
Now sing it
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Sometimes
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Ooh, yeah
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
Oh, that’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
You know it
(C’est la vie, c’est la vie)
That’s just the way it goes
(That’s life)
Compozitori: Duncan Pain, Robert S Nevil, Mark I Holding.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
dec. 032023
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.”
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote „The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and 49 years old when he wrote „Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote „The Hunger Games”
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote „The Cat in the Hat”.
40) Chesley „Sully” Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”Pablo
dec. 022023
”Adevărata iubire are, totdeauna, drept bază, renunţarea la propriul bine individual.”
L. N. Tolstoi
dec. 012023
See the sun
Shine above your head
See the love
That you once had
Don’t ever let go
Oh no
Don’t ever let go
Oh no
See the dreams
That you hold inside
See the hope
See the colors fly
Don’t ever let go
Oh no
Don’t ever let go
Oh no
And if you wish upon it
With open eyes
The world will sing to you
Yeah if you really want it
Then hold on tight
You’ve got everything to loose
See the world
Through a child’s eyes
Never give up
Or let it slip by
Don’t ever let go
Oh no
Don’t ever let go, don’t ever let go
When fortunes open wide
And if you wish upon it
You’ll be surprised
How the world will sing to you
If you really want it
Then hold on tight
You’ve got everything to loose
Don’t ever let go
You need to keep the dream alive
Don’t ever let go, don’t ever let go
Hold on tight
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Date de la: genius.com
dec. 012023
She saw the world through her smile
When she held your hand you knew it’d be all right
She spoke of places she’d never been
„Now is the time”, she’d say, „to live the dream”
And she told us how she could fly
And she said „no need for goodbyes”
For we’d see her there in the skies where angels
Fly Angels Fly
She stayed a while that summers day
Spoke through a smile of how she’d go away
I saw in her eyes her pain
She took my hand and said it’d be ok
And now she’s soaring up through the sky
And she takes us all in her flight
And she told us the reasons why Angels fly, Angels fly
Some summer days I can see her smile
In so many ways she’s still alive
And the love that she gave I keep down inside
I’m keeping it safe ‘til I learn to fly
And she’s soaring up through the sky
And she takes us all in her flight
And I feel she is still alive
Where Angels Fly, Angels Fly
And she told us how she could fly
And she said no need for good byes
For we’d see her there in the sky where Angels fly,
Angels fly, Angels fly my sweet Angel Flies.
Compozitori: Raymond Michael Garvey, Mike Gommeringer, Uwe Bossert, Philipp Rauenbusch, Sebastian Padotzke.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
dec. 012023
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Soren Kierkegaard
nov. 302023
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, ”The Fellowship of the Ring”
nov. 302023
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
John Lennon
nov. 292023
“I’ve got my own moral compass to steer by
A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
And all the preaching voices –
Empty vessels ring so loud
As they move among the crowd
Fools and thieves are well disguised
In the temple and market placeLike a stone in the river
Against the floods of spring
I will quietly resistLike the willows in the wind
Or the cliffs along the ocean
I will quietly resistI don’t have faith in faith
I don’t believe in belief
You can call me faithless
I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
And that’s faith enough for meI’ve got my own spirit level for balance
To tell if my choice is leaning up or down
And all the shouting voices
Try to throw me off my course
Some by sermon, some by force
Fools and thieves are dangerous
In the temple and market placeLike a forest bows to winter
Beneath the deep white silence
I will quietly resistLike a flower in the desert
That only blooms at night
I will quietly resist”Rush