the phrase 'how long is a piece of string' means that the quantitative answer is not known and there is an implicate understanding that the answer will be difficult to find given the information available.
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6/18/2009
How long is a piece of string?
the phrase 'how long is a piece of string' means that the quantitative answer is not known and there is an implicate understanding that the answer will be difficult to find given the information available.
6/15/2009
is it true?I hope so.
Your problem seemed to me to be so important that I spent more than 13 hours performing an in-depth study of your case, so that I could help you more quickly.
I am aware of your most important wish: Work
As surprising as this may seem, I have every reason to believe that it will come true sooner than you may think. I will tell you when and how this will happen.
I am also aware of the problem that concerns you most at the moment: Money
You made an excellent decision asking me for help.
In fact, I see that in the coming weeks you should find a suitable solution for most of your problems. In just a moment I will reveal what I saw happening to you in detail.
But first I want to announce that I have selected you to be included in a book I plan to write. If all goes well, I will be able to send you A CHECK FOR £300, MADE OUT TO YOUR NAME, in accordance with my commitment.
AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY GOOD NEWS. There are many more good things in store for you, which you may not be expecting.
That’s why it’s important for you to take note of the date written below in red:
July 15 2009!
Starting on that day, you are going to be at a DECISIVE TURNING POINT IN YOUR EXISTENCE.
I can tell you that YOU ARE GOING TO ENTER A LUCKY ASTRAL PERIOD VERY SOON which should definitely be THE MOST IMPORTANT OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.
More precisely, I see 3 WONDERFUL MONTHS THAT ARE GOING TO TRANSFORM YOUR DESTINY. Followed by 3 more very good months that will have a lasting effect on your future, Yu.
I ALSO HAVE SOME OTHER NEWS FOR YOU THAT IS A LITTLE LESS POSITIVE. But you shouldn’t worry more than necessary about it.
Because even though something may happen that is not very good for you, I can still be there to help you.
I will show you how you can avoid events that could turn out to be negative for you. And in any case, I will tell you what to do so that the LUCKY PERIOD that is in store for you works out in your favor.
Above all I want you to know that, as my way of thanking you for the confidence you have shown in me, I made a commitment in my soul and in my conscience to do everything I could to help you, until the moment that YOUR HAPPINESS IS TOTAL AND COMPLETE.
I have already done this for many people with problems as serious as yours, people who thought that nothing and no one could change their lives.
Today they are all overjoyed to realize just how much THEIR FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL SITUATIONS REALLY HAVE BECOME TOTALLY TRANSFORMED. And what I have done for others, I can also do for you.
Now I should tell you about some information that concerns you, and is of great importance for you today:
Your date of birth is: 16 September 1982.
That makes you a Virgo.
Your astral chart is strongly influenced by Mercury.
Based on these factors, I will now transmit my initial conclusions to you:
General Introduction
You are someone with a complex, often unsettling personality. You don’t always understand your contradictions, and you are not always appreciated by those around you, to say the least.
And yet it is this same ambiguity, these same contradictions, that make your personality really rich. Order and discipline, detail and precision, are the primordial traits that characterize your daily activities. At the same time you are capable of being extremely disorganized and undisciplined, and of letting things go when you feel like it!
Health
You need the air of the great outdoors, calm and contemplation!
No matter what health problems may arise in your life, first look for the cause in your nervous system.
Are you an irritable person? You don’t have to look further than that. But it’s no use stuffing yourself with all kinds of special medication to regain the calm and peace-of-mind you so sorely need.
Any competent doctor will advise you to first get more oxygen: there’s no doubt that you need a lot of air.
Try to overcome your natural tendency to be lazy, and at least twice a week practice some outdoor sport like jogging, bicycling, golf, tennis (not indoors), swimming when possible, etc.
GET AS MUCH OXYGEN AS YOU CAN!
Love – Emotions
Charm, modesty, tenderness and – yes – shyness !
You are also wary of others. You can be demanding and critical, and "falling in love" is not really your cup of tea.
Is the natural love you feel sometimes colored with romanticism? Maybe! But you are not often really passionate: your critical and analytical sense, your reasoning and your mistrust, often hold you back.
It is certain that a little less reason, a little more passion, and showing your feelings more often would help you in this area. Have the confidence to let yourself go from time to time. For example, why not let your 6th sense guide you more often. At least it’s hardly ever wrong. And because love is natural for you, try to give off yourself without fear. You will then be capable of experiencing exceptional love.
Social Life
Order, method, precision...
You may have already wondered why these qualities, these character traits, are always present in anything you undertake.
Well, I believe it’s simply because these aspects of your personality reflect your important need for security.
One cannot say that you have a taste for adventure! Security, morality and material possessions come before anything else.
Your sense of accuracy, of precise control and accounting makes you suitable for work as a civil servant. You could be very successful, although you may not aspire to such a career (it does have its limits).
But in this area too we can also see the ambiguity of your personality, which I already mentioned, come to the forefront: as opposed to a civil service position, you would also be suitable for a liberal profession where your intrinsic qualities would by highly appreciated.
Luck
Your golden number is 10, your lucky number par excellence. Use the number 10 as often as you can: for example, when you set up an important meeting, insist on the 10th day of the month, or 10 o’clock in the morning; when you use the train, get in the 10th car, etc.
To ensure your chances in love, your most favorable number is 27.
And 15 is your number for success in all areas: business, friendship, money, etc.
Some final advice
You may not be aware of it yet, but the Force inside you is the most important positive element you have to attain success under any circumstances: success in your future projects, success with love, money, business, etc.
It is clear that you have a huge potential, which you received at birth (a potential for luck and unexpected money) which is in total opposition to the difficult life you are leading, and the bad luck which is unjustly affecting you at the moment.
You should never have had to deal with the difficulties and serious problems (especially those concerning money) that seem to be ceaselessly plaguing you.
Here’s why:
Mercury, along with the other planets that control your Destiny, have endowed you with tremendous Lucky Power.
This should have turned out to be very positive for you in terms of money, and the realization of what you really hold dear in life. But that has not been the case.
Of course you’ve had a few happy moments at certain times in your life. But you know that you have generally been lacking in luck in many important areas of your life. Isn’t that so?
You have had some periods of luck and happiness on your journey. But SOMEONE OR SOMETHING HAS BEEN PREVENTING YOU FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THAT LUCK. It has passed you by each and every time.
There have also been LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY THAT WERE WITHIN YOUR GRASP on many occasions, but once again an invisible hand seems to have prevented you from enjoying your potential profit.
As things stand now you take each day as it comes, without really knowing what will happen to you tomorrow.
Sometimes, because of a lack of self-confidence, you make decisions that eventually have serious consequences. You may be thinking that this is all your fault.
Well, that is not the case!
I HAVE A STRANGE FEELING, as if some HARMFUL INFLUENCE was forcing you to make the wrong decisions, those that attract bad luck instead of good luck (especially as far as money is concerned).
Don’t say to yourself: "I’ve never been lucky... I just have too much bad luck... I’ll never get out of my present situation!”
Believe me, based on my experience I can confidently say that is not the case at all. On the contrary!
You have a right to happiness. And you should know that there are no unlucky stars in your astral chart.
All you have to do is follow THE PATH TO LUCK AND HAPPINESS as indicated by your master planets, which will soon become active and influence your destiny.
In your case your dominant planet is: Mercury. Along with your other important master planets, it has already presented you with numerous lucky occasions (notably for money), although you were not able to take advantage of them for an obvious reason which you know already.
This was not your fault. NO ONE WAS THERE TO HELP YOU understand the importance of these occasions, and tell you what to do.
It’s too bad we didn’t know each other sooner. I could have intervened and told you exactly what to do, and when.
I could have warned you about problems you might have avoided and, most importantly, I could have helped you TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE OCCASIONS FOR LUCK AND MONEY that should have been yours.
If I had done so your life would have been wonderful. You would not have experienced all the major problems you’ve been having until now.
But we mustn’t dwell on the past. The important thing now for you to be happy is to know that IT ISN’T TOO LATE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Starting today I pledge to do everything in my power (including putting in my time) to help you make your most heartfelt dreams come true.
I am convinced that YOUR LIFE CAN CHANGE OVER THE COMING WEEKS. I feel it in the deepest part of my being. You can trust me – I am very, very rarely wrong.
BUT YOU MUST BE CAREFUL!
You can’t keep moving forward in the dark, without a helping hand to point out all the opportunities for Luck and Money that will be presented to you in the near future.
You should know that at your age of 26 years old, you still have the perspective of many years of happiness ahead of you. You can be absolutely certain of that.
But you have to know exactly when it will be important to SEIZE THE NUMEROUS OCCASIONS FOR LUCK AND HAPPINESS THAT COME YOUR WAY.
That must be done at the moment they are presented to you. I’ll tell you all about it. I feel some very surprising things about you.
YOU HAVE VERY STRONG INTUITION, YOU’RE SENSITIVE, AND YOU ARE VERY GENEROUS, BUT sometimes other people take advantage of you, without knowing that THINGS aren’t going so well.
I see you as an anxious person, a little vulnerable, who doesn’t always know how to defend yourself against life’s injustices.
And while we’re on the subject, I SHOULD TELL YOU A SECRET THAT CONCERNS YOU PERSONALLY:
Do you know that you have a force inside you - Unlimited Inner Power – that you totally ignore and make no use of at all? I saw it clearly on a number of occasions.
And do you know why you ignore this force and make no use of it? Well, you may have already noticed how a lot of people think they’re better than others.
For you the exact opposite is true. You tend to see your weak points instead of your strong ones.
I’m pretty sure you’ve already asked yourself: “Why do some people have so much happiness and not me”?
You have to stop this kind of negative thinking. You have to accept that YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, AS MUCH RIGHT AS ANYONE ELSE, TO THE LUCK AND MONEY you’ve been deprived of until now. And for that to happen all you need to do is agree to accept some special help from me.
HERE’S WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU:
Firstly, it’s important for you to know that to help you it is not absolutely necessary for us to meet personally.
I have already helped hundreds of people who, like you, had serious problems with luck or money, and each and every time their most urgent problem disappeared, without my having to meet them face to face.
Because of what I felt about you (I always trust my first impressions) I know that YOU ARE VERY SOON GOING TO ENTER ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL PERIODS OF YOUR LIFE.
THIS EXCEPTIONAL PERIOD SHOULD BEGIN ON July 15 2009. I don’t want to be more specific, because it could happen a few days before or a few days after July 15 2009.
It should last until October 13 2009, which means 3 full months of great good luck with money, followed by 3 very positive months in your personal life.
During that entire time I will be there, to point out all the opportunities for Luck and Money that you should take advantage of.
I will show you WHAT TO DO TO AVOID PROBLEMS that could arise for you (and how to turn them in your favor).
You must not ignore THIS PERIOD WHICH COULD TRANSFORM YOUR ENTIRE DESTINY. All you have to do to profit 100% from the opportunities that arise at the start of this lucky period is act when I tell you to.
If you follow my advice, your situation should improve very rapidly after that.
As for the problem that you are most concerned with, I see A HAPPY SOLUTION IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE (much sooner than you may think).
THE MAIN REASON:
In the coming weeks Mercury, the master planet which has the most influence on you and on your future will, along with other very beneficial planets, exert an influence on your immediate destiny and make it very favorable for you. This convergence of luck will not happen again for a long time.
You have to understand that AN AMAZING EVOLUTION WILL HAPPEN FOR YOU AS FAR AS LUCK AND MONEY ARE CONCERNED.
I am deeply convinced that during this period of your life you will finally gain the right to enjoy your share of happiness and luck in all important areas: financial as well as emotional and familial.
You should know that there will be certain specific times when YOUR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS WILL BE MULTIPLIED 10, 20, AND EVEN 30 TIMES, especially in games that involve money.
At the right time I will reveal these favorable periods, when your chances of winning an upcoming jackpot are multiplied 30 times!
I will give you all the specific dates when you should use this precious information to gain maximum financial profit.
BUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. There is an obstacle you have to avoid. You have to be very discreet about this.
A person who is envious of you may try to direct HARMFUL UNLUCKY VIBRATIONS at you (this could happen sooner than you think) to prevent you from getting a large amount of money.
If that turns out to be the case, I will tell you exactly WHAT TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST THE NEGATIVE VIBRATIONS coming from that person.
I’ll also tell you what decisions you have to make (during the lucky periods that are coming your way) to ensure that your destiny advances firmly towards the realization of your imminent happiness.
I am this positive about your immediate future because I have the gift, proven many times over, of seeing things long before they happen.
I was challenged by those who didn’t believe in clairvoyance, and asked to take part in many para-psychological tests. The results of these tests were surprising, and indicated a very small margin of error of only 3%.
What does that mean? It means that I can see the future of someone accurately, 97% of the time. Few psychics can claim to do that.
Believe me, it’s absolutely essential for you to know what important events will happen for you in the coming months, and I’ll be happy to tell you about them.
Then you’ll be lucky enough to know for sure what good things you can expect in your immediate future.
Don’t think: “I don’t need to know. My future doesn’t look very bright right now, and I don’t know when or how things will ever work out.”
Obviously your future cannot be favorable if you don’t know what obstacles you are likely to encounter, even though it is possible to avoid them. Or when your chances for gaining money are best, and must absolutely be taken advantage of.
You now know that AN EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY PERIOD SHOULD BEGIN FOR YOU AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE STARTING ON July 15 2009.
You absolutely must take advantage of the fantastic opportunities for luck and money that will come your way in the next 3 months. Especially since they will be followed by another very positive 3 months for your personal life.
These 6 months of intense change will give your existence a whole new meaning. Especially if you know exactly what to do, and when and how to do it!
Here’s what I am offering to do for you:
What you discover in this detailed reading has nothing in common with anything you may have been told up to now about you and your future.
You will receive a document that is more complete and more detailed than anything any other psychic may have done for you before.
I KNOW THAT YOU NEED £0 AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
All I can say is that even though you may have financial problems right at this moment, your immediate future shows that money will probably no longer be a problem for you.
You will have as much as you need. In fact, AN INITIAL INPUT OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY starting on July 15 2009 should transform your entire life.
This sudden and unexpected arrival of money is inscribed in your astral chart.
You may not know about it yet, but it is being prepared for you right now, and should happen in the next few weeks.
YOUR FINANCES:
I will tell you in detail exactly how you can receive a considerable number of LARGE AND UNEXPECTED INPUTS OF MONEY.
Exactly when you will no longer have any money problems, and how much you can hope to receive in all.
When it’s time to stop thinking about saving and making some important payments that you may not have expected, and what these expenses will be.
How to manage your money with precision, so that you always have enough to last you the rest of your life.
As for luck, I will be able to reveal the hidden secrets of your destiny:
You may have noticed that, despite all your efforts until now, you have always been unlucky in most of the important areas in your life.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOUR PROBLEM OF BAD LUCK WILL SOON COME TO AN END.
The dominant position occupied by Mercury, your master planet, in relation to the other planets, clearly shows that you are going to profit from an excellent configuration that is very favorable for luck.
Starting on July 15 2009 you can expect the sudden and unexpected realization of your most important wish: Work.
I will tell you exactly on which days of the week your chances of winning will be at their maximum, and when to try your luck at which games so that your chances of winning big are multiplied 30 times.
I will also tell you which moments are less favorable for you (there aren’t many but there will be some) so that you can avoid playing and not run the risk of losing your money.
6/13/2009
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish[zt]
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
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5/24/2009
goodnight dear void
when i am typing in my room alone,these words just pop out.
recently, i started to think about my life in Britain,beijing and shenyang.what's my First Dream?
be a scientist,a writer,a shopgirl,a house wife,or an OL?i can't see the end,and don't know whether i am on the half way of one of them.
"Sometimes I wonder about my life.
I lead a small life.
Well,
valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like
it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me
of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way
around?
I don’t really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void.
So goodnight, dear void."
-You've Got Mail.
5/08/2009
On the innate superiority of rabbits over wolves[zt]
A rabbit is happily grazing one day when it is ambushed by a wolf.
“Please don’t eat me Mr Wolf,” pleads the rabbit, “I haven’t completed my Ph.D.!”
The wolf spits out the rabbit and laughs until he almost chokes.
“Yeah right! A rabbit? Doing a Ph.D.? What about? Carrots? Duracell batteries? I just gotta hear
this one!”
The rabbit clears its throat and intones: “On the innate superiority of rabbits over wolves.”
“That’s a crock for a start,” scoffs the wolf.
“But I can prove it,” says the rabbit. “Come to my hole and I’ll show you my results, and if you still
don’t believe me, then you can eat me. Deal?”
“Sure. Can I have fries with that?” says the wolf, following the rabbit down the hole.
But only the rabbit comes out.
Months later the rabbit is grazing contentedly again when it meets another rabbit.
“How’s tricks?” asks the friend.
“Wonderful,” says our hero, “I’ve just submitted my Ph.D. dissertation.”
“Congratulations! What’s it called?”
“It’s called ‘On the innate superiority of rabbits over wolves’.”
“Unbelievable — I mean, literally. Are you sure?”
“Yes, I thought it was crazy at first too. But I’ve tested the model rigorously and that’s the
result I get.”
“Wow…”
“Look, if you don’t believe me, why not come to my hole and I can show you the results?”
“Of course, I’d love to!”
So the two rabbits scurry down the burrow. In the first chamber is a workstation, covered with and
surrounded by piles of books, papers, printouts and half-eaten carrots. In the second chamber are
boxes and boxes of wolf bones, all catalogued and annotated. And in the final chamber, in a
rocking chair, is a large and very satisfied looking bear.
Moral: do your Ph.D. on any subject you like, provided you have a good supervisor.
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5/05/2009
中文谚语(英文译文附后)
1. 见机行事。
2. 兵不厌诈。
3. 留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。
4. 种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。
5. 不问就听不到假话。
6. 情人眼里出西施。
7. 血浓于水。
8. 海内存知己,天涯若比邻。
9. 简洁是智慧的灵魂。
10.公事公办。
11.车到山前必有路。
12.巧妇难为无米之炊。
13.笨鸟先飞。
14.精诚所至,金石为开。
15.置之死地而后生。
16.滴水穿石。
17.习惯成自然。
18.以其人之道,还治其人之身。
19.血债要用血来还。
20.隔行如隔山。
21.一回生,二回熟。
22.早动手,早收获。
23. 者千虑,必有一失。
24. 吃一堑,长一智。
25. 国家兴亡,匹夫有责。
26. 每一个人都有美中不足的地方。
27. 人各有所好。
28. 行行出状元。
29. 仁者见仁,智者见智。
30. 切莫错过良机。
31. 凡事总有一个开头。
32. 身教胜于言教。
33. 经验是智慧之母。
34. 经验是愚者之师。
35. 乐极生悲。
36. 以眼还眼,以牙还牙。
37. 心有余而力不足(贪多嚼不烂)。
38. 吃一堑,长一智。
39. 人怕出名猪怕壮。
40. 少说为佳。
41. 寡不敌众。
42. 水火无情。
43. 看菜吃饭,量体裁衣。
44. 患难之交才是真正的朋友。
45. 君子之交淡如水。
46. 天才出自勤奋。
47. 礼轻情意重。
48. 好故事百听不厌。
49. 善有善报,恶有恶报。
50. 名师出高徒。
51. 习惯成自然。
52. 欲速则不达(忙中有错)。
53. 满招损,谦受益。
54. 时来运转百事顺。
55. 人人都有缺点。
56. 近墨者黑。
57. 人无远虑,必有近忧。
58. 来者不善,善者不来。
59. 与人方便,自己方便。
60. 谁笑在最后,谁笑得最好。
61. 健康胜于财富。
62. 心有灵犀一点通。
63. 历史总在重演。
64. 明人不做暗事。
65. 诚实是上上之策。
66. 态度随地位而变。
67. 上梁不正下梁歪。
68. 若要人不知,除非己莫为。
69. 只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针。
70. 病从口入,祸从口出。
71. 贵人多忘事。
72. 一不做,二不休。
73. 酒后吐真言。
74. 事后聪明很容易。
75. 得道多助,失道寡助。
76. 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。
77. 活到老,学到老。
78. 知己知彼,百战不殆。
79. 前事不忘,后事之师。
80. 同类相吸。
81. 有其师必有其徒。
82. 学无止境。
83. 欲速则不达。
84. 养兵千日,用兵一时。
85. 大丈夫能屈能伸。
86. 人生一世,草木一春。
87. 大智若愚。
88. 祸不单行。
89. 一失足成千古恨。
90. 钱是万恶之源。
91. 跑了和尚跑不了庙。
92. 道高一尺,魔高一丈。
93. 多劳多得。
94. 需要是发明之母。
95. 不打不相识。
96. 天有不测风云。
97. 不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
98. 一失足成千古恨。
99. 无事不登三宝殿。
100.钥匙开一把锁。
101.机会带来成功。
102.机不可失,时不再来。
103.时代不同,风尚不同(俗随时变)。
104.种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。
105.熟能生巧。
106.言行一致。
107.皇天不负苦心人。
108.是非自有公论。
109.来得容易去得快。
110.兔子不吃窝边草。
111.读万卷书,行万里路。
112.开卷有益(阅读使人增长知识)。
113.读书总会有所收获(开卷有益)。
114.远亲不如近邻。
115.流水不腐,户枢不蠢。
116.说是一回事,而做又是另外一回事。
117.苦海无边,回头是岸。
118.沉默是金。
119.星星之火,可以燎原。
120.千里之堤,溃于蚁穴。
121.小洞不堵沉大船。
122.麻雀虽小,五脏俱全。
123.天有不测风云。
124.打铁趁热。
125.疾风知劲草,烈火见真金。
126.强将手下无弱兵。
127.天无绝人之路。
128.有利必有弊。
129.求学无坦途。
1. Act according to circumstances.
2. All is fair in war.
3. As long as the green hills last, there'll always be wood to burn.
4. As you sow, so shall you reap.
5. Ask no questions and be told no lies.
6. Beauty lies in lover's eye.
7. Blood is thicker than water.
8. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
9. Brevity is the soul of wit.
10.Business is business.
11.The cart will find its way round the hill when it gets there.
12. he cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.
13. Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
14. Complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.
15. Confront a person with the danger of death and he will fight to live.
16. Constant dripping wears away the stone.
17. Custom is a second nature.
18. Deal with a man as he deals with you.
19. Debts of blood must be paid in blood.
20. Different trades are separated as by mountains.
21. Different the first time, easy the second.
22. Early sow, early mow.
23. Even the wise are not free from error.
24. Every failure one meets with adds to one's experience.
25. Every man has a share of responsibility for the fate of his country.
26. Every man has the defects of his own virtues.
27. Every man to his taste.
28. Every profession produces its own leading authority.
29. Everyone thinks in his way.
30. Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
31. Everything must have a beginning.
32. Example is better than precept.
33. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
34. Experience is the teacher of fools.
35. Extreme joy begets sorrow.
36. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
37. The eye is bigger than the belly.
38. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
39. Fame portends trouble for men just as fattening does for pigs.
40. Few words are best.
41. A few are no match for the many.
42. Fire and water have no mercy.
43. Fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure.
44. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
45. The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.
46. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
47. The gift is trifling but the feeling is profound.
48. A good tale is not the worse for being told twice.
49. Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil.
50. A great teacher produces a brilliant student.
51. Habit is second nature.
52. Haste makes waste.
53. Haughtiness invites disaster, humility receives benefit.
54. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
55. He is lifeless that is faultless.
56. He that touchs pitch shall be defiled.
57. He who gives no thought to difficulties in the future is sure to be beset by
worries much closer at hand.
58. He who has come is surely strong or he'd never have come along.
59. He who helps others helps himself.
60. He who laughs last laughs longest.
61. Health is better than wealth.
62. Hearts which beat in unison are linked.
63. History repeats itself.
64. An honest man does nothing underhand.
65. Honesty is the best policy. 66. Honours change manners.
67. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will go aslant.
68. If you do not wish anyone to know what you have done, it is better not to have
done it in the first place.
69. If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron rod into a needle.
70. Illness comes from food and trouble from speech.
71. Important people have short memories.
72. In for a penny, in for a pound.
73. In wine there is truth.
74. It is easy to be wise after the event.
75. A just cause enjoys abundant support while an unjust cause finds little.
76. Justice has long arms.
77. Keep on learning as long as you live.
78. Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.
79. Lessons learned from the past can guide one in the future.
80. Like attracts like.
81. Like teacher, like pupil.
82. Live and learn.
83. The longest way round is the nearest way home.
84. Maintain an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour.
85. A man among men is he who knows when to eat humble pie and when to hold his head
high.
86. Man has but one life, grass sees but one spring.
87. A man of great wisdom often seems slowwitted.
88. Misfortunes never come singly.
89. A moment's error can bring a lifelong regret.
90. Money is the root of all evil.
91. The monk may run away, but the temple can't run with him.
92. The more illumination, the more temptation.
93. More pay for more work.
94. Necessity is the mother of invention.
95. No discord, no concord.
96. Nothing is so certain as the unexpected.
97. Nothing venture, nothing have.
98. One false step brings everlasting grief.
99. One never goes to the temple for no reason.
100.Open different locks with different keys.
101.Opportunity brings success.
102.Opportunity knocks but once.
103.Other times, other manners.
104.Plant melons and you get melons, sow
beans and you get beans.
105.Practice makes perfect.
106.Practise what you preach.
107.Providence does not let down a man who does his best.
108. ublic opinion is the best judge.
109. Quickly come, quickly go.
110. A rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its own hole.
111. Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles.
112. Reading enriches the mind.
113. Reading is always profitable.
114. A relative far off is less help than a neighbour close by.
115. Running water is never stale and a door-hinge never gets worm-eaten.
116. Saying is one thing and doing another.
117. The sea of bitterness has no bounds, repent and the shore is at hand.
118. Silence is golden.
119. A single spark can start a prairie fire.
120. Slight negligence may lead to great disaster.
121. A small leak will sink a great ship.
122. A sparrow may be small but it has all the vital organs.
123. A storm may arise from a clear sky.
124. Strike while the iron is hot.
125. Sturdy grass withstands high winds; true gold stands the test of fire.
126. There are no poor soldiers under a good general.
127. There is always a way out.
128. There is no fire without smoke.
129. There is no royal road to learning.
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