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Events of the day 15 September

1949:

Was born Adrian Dinu Rachieru.

1938:

Was born Marian Popa.

1927:

Was born Mihail Roman.

Neagoe Basarab1521:

Has died Neagoe Basarab.

Patrick Swayze2009:

Has died Patrick Swayze.

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Famous quotes

Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's...

Quote by Agatha Christie about advice, reason, good, good luck
Agatha Christie

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I...

Quote by Agatha Christie about film, politics, regret
Agatha Christie

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see...

Quote by Agatha Christie about love, thinking, people
Tommy Lee Jones

I look upon pride as a sin.

Quote by Tommy Lee Jones about proudness, sin
Dumitru Găleşanu

But, what's the point of all this, when, of course, we've...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about purpose
Dumitru Găleşanu

For as much as I could, I tried to shut up about the two...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity
Dumitru Găleşanu

Ancient infinite generations of stars – extensions lost...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity
Dumitru Găleşanu

Through the cosmic radiation of basic microwaves, to the...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about infinite
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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Writings

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The Keynote

The bone is a joy only when it's the forehead bone,
when it protects, does not disjoin,
as are the alkaline vertebrae
from the difficult depths of the flesh and the wedding.
I'm resigned to losing the habit
of my manner of being,
but...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about habits, being, body, time, hunger, marriage, solitude, death, joy, celebrity

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

The Lake

Water lilies load all over
The blue lake amid the woods,
That imparts, while in white circles
Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing
Listening, waiting, in unrest,
That she from the reeds may issue
And...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about water, fall, feelings, lie, moon, light

The hieroglyph

What loneliness
to find no meaning
when there is a meaning

And what loneliness
to be blind in the full light of day,
and deaf, what loneliness,
amidst the swelling of a song

But not to understand
when there is no meaning,
and...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about solitude, blind, silence, night, light, day

Folklore

Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.

The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peasantry

A little pot is soon hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

God's mill grinds slow but sure.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about god

To quote lies is also lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about lie

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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Dictionary, Enciclopedia

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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...

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...