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Events of the day 18 January

Kevin Michael Costner1955:

Was born Kevin Michael Costner.

Ioan Slavici1848:

Was born Ioan Slavici.

1943:

Was born Dan Rotaru.

1944:

Was born Doina Sterescu.

Grigore Vieru2009:

Has died Grigore Vieru.

Rudyard Kipling1936:

Has died Rudyard Kipling.

Marian Papahagi1999:

Has died Marian Papahagi.

1873:

Has died Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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Famous quotes

Charles Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about people, man
Charles Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about peace, commerce
Charles Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he...

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, future
Kevin Michael Costner

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a...

Quote by Kevin Michael Costner about opinion, celebrity, being, woman
Kim Ung-Yong

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am....

Quote by Kim Ung-Yong about happiness
Albert Einstein

Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction...

Quote by Albert Einstein about thinking
Albert Einstein

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of...

Quote by Albert Einstein about rules
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Quote by Albert Einstein about weakness, thinking
William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...

Quote by William Blake about philosophy, sleep, night
Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...

Quote by Henry Ford about succes, progress, beginning
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the...

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about judgment, judges, day
Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice




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Adolescents on the sea

This sea is covered with adolescents
learning to walk on waves, upright,
sometimes resting their arms on the currents,
sometimes gripping a stiff beam of sunlight.
I lie on the broad beach, an angled shape, cut perfectly,
and I ponder...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about progress, lie, infinite

Sign 12

Little by little she became a word,
bundles of soul on the wind,
a dolphin in the clutches of my eyebrows,
a stone provoking rings in water,
a star inside my knww,
a sky inside my shoulder,
and I inside I.

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about word, water, soul, celebrity, sky

Ode (in ancient meter)

Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish;
Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered,
Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often
Solitude's symbol.

All at once, however, you crossed my pathway -
Suffering - you, painfully...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about old, sadness, symbol, eyes, solitude, hope, suffering, being, thinking, celebrity

Christmas Also Came Here

Christmas also came here
To soothe our pain,
White snow is falling over my life
It’s snowing over my soul,
White snow is falling
Over my life
That ends here.

The star begins to shine
On the holy manger
And once again three magi...

Tudor GheorgheSongs by Tudor Gheorghe about christmas, pain, sin, life, end, tears, dream, soul, celebrity

Folklore

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From a big cloud comes little rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about rain

Though thou hast never so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about moral, soul

A greedy man's possession is eaten by a pirate.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The mighty tree must catch the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about trap

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire.

Riddles

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

Proverbs and old sayings American


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Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird

Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...

Bovarism

Bovarism

Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...