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[belamyi]

http://citations.webescence.com/cit...pays-qui-est-passe-directement-barbarie-10309

“Les États-Unis d'Amérique forment un pays qui est passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence, sans jamais avoir connu la civilisation.”
Inconnu
La phrase est attribuée à différents auteurs : George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau, John O'Hara, Albert Einstein, etc... . La liste est loin d'être exhaustive.

Néanmoins il reste difficile d'identifier son auteur.

On peut rencontrer une phrase similaire dans un livre d'histoire français et qui s'applique à la Russie
"... il fit passer son pays sans transition de la barbarie à la décadence, de l'enfance à la caducité." (Histoire des progrès de la civilisation en Europe depuis l'ère chrétienne jusqu'au XIXe siècle, Volume 6, chapitre 3ème, p.72 - Par H. Roux-Ferrand, 1847 ).
La phrase telle quelle semble avoir été publiée dans un journal français : La Liberté.
Le Washington Post du 16 juillet 1932 en propose la traduction anglaise, qui sera alors souvent reprise, et attribuée à différents auteurs.

En anglais : "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

 

[belamyi]

"Qui no comparteix la batalla, després pot escollir entre compartir la victòria, la derrota, o continuar observant al marge: es pot defugir el fet, però mai no se'n podrà defugir les manipulacions."

"La batalla es puntual i única, la seva història és interminable i multiforme."

"La batalla no comença el dia de la batalla, sinó el dia del propi naixement, i les derrotes i les victòries són ben anteriors als exèrcits i la política."

 

[belamyi]

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

"Qui no comparteix la batalla, després pot escollir entre compartir la victòria, la derrota, o continuar observant al marge: es pot defugir el fet, però mai no se'n podrà defugir les manipulacions."

[/I]

"Se'n podran", right?

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

"Qui no comparteix la batalla, pot compartir bé la victòria, bé la derrota... o continuar al marge."

 

[belamyi]

"Hi ha qui entra molt alegrement en batalla, perquè ja compta amb una 'victòria moral' assegurada."

 

[belamyi]

"La derrota sempre precedeix la batalla: la victòria defuig la batalla."

Sí, sí, ja ho sé ... però no és menys veritat

 

[belamyi]

"Els qui criden a una batalla mai no són derrotats."

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Ik zit in oe Kadett
Ie hebt de radio aangeset
Ie trekt mie tegen oe aan
Ik zeg: "Wat ben ie noe van plan?"

 

[DantheManFL]

Parrot uses Amazon Alexa to order items while owner is away.

A parrot in the United Kingdom that was once kicked out of the National Animal Welfare Trust sanctuary for swearing too much is at it again. This time, he using Amazon Alexa to order items while his owner is away.

Rocco, an African grey parrot, reportedly learned how to use Alexa to order watermelon and strawberries. He also attempted to order light bulbs, ice cream and a kite.

What a character.

https://www.wesh.com/article/parrot-uses-amazon-alexa-to-order-items-while-owner-is-away/25595950

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[frankfrank]

Most amazing about the map is how few of those cities still exist with the same name. Roma and Alexandria look like the ONLY ONES with its name still entirely intact???? (Memphis is no longer there, right? What about Corinth?)

Some are close, such as Neapolis > Napoli, Salamantica > Salamanca, Corduba > Cordoba, etc...Tingi > Tangier? And where's ones I expected such as Damascus (is that Palymra?) and Troy? (To be fair, Utica Carthage Syracusae are three other New York State city names. with Syracuse modified slightly, lol.) What about Jerusalem or Bethlehem?

I guess it's common for city and regional names to be changed when an empire or territory (nation-state) crumbles, though there wasn't a wholesale flip pf place names when the Confederate States of America seceded in 1860 - by and large the existing cities retained their pre-CSA names. Leesville in northern Virginia may be one such that changed (if it did; to commemorate REL...but that illustrious General was from not Leesville but Lexington VA, where their radio station has the call letters WREL). I don't think any northern cities were rebranded when Confederate troops/armies took them over, but the CSA units didn't make very heavy incursions either.

I'm not sure how many of the mapped towns are in the same places that modern cities are.

 

[Charon]

 

[rareboy]

Einstein, Newton and Pascal were playing hide and seek. It was Einstein's turn to count so he covers his eyes and starts counting to ten. Pascal runs off and hides. Newton draws a one meter by one meter square on the ground in front of Einstein... then stands in the middle of it.

Einstein reaches ten and uncovers his eyes. He sees Newton immediately and exclaims, "Newton, I found you! You are it!"

Newton smiles and replies, "No, you didn't find me...you found a Newton over a square meter. You found Pascal!.

 

[Kyanimal]

^ I had to gOOgle that!

 

[Alistair]

 

[Peloso]

This pretty much sums me up.

 

[belamyi]