• humour

    Jean Gabin quote

    I came across this quote from the great French actor Jean Gabin:
    I will drink milk when I see cows eating grapes

    Meanwhile I got a ukelele as a present, I’m starting to play it quite well and I begin to understand why this was George Harrison’s favorite instrument.

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  • magick

    The American Civil War

    Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world. Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, but I’ll be hanged if I see any reason why some future generation shouldn’t walk off like a beetle with the world on its back, or give it another rotary motion so that every zone should receive in turn its due portion of heat and light.

    Henry Brooks Adams
    Letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr., London, 11 April 1862.

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