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У основателя стартапа (CEO), с которым мы работали с середины прошлого лета, обнаружили рак мозга второй степени. Сегодня ему сделали операцию по удалению опухоли. Вроде бы удачно. Вот так. Человеку нет и тридцати, но будет невероятной удачей, если он доживет до сорока.

Тем временем, стартап закрылся. Жалко, потому что идея была хорошая, но без основателя ее никто не сможет сделать, тем более, когда весь мир очумел, в прямом смысле этого слова.

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Estragon recoils.) You stink of garlic!

VLADIMIR:
It's for the kidneys. (Silence. Estragon looks attentively at the tree.) What do we do now?

ESTRAGON:
Wait.

VLADIMIR:
Yes, but while waiting.

ESTRAGON:
What about hanging ourselves?

VLADIMIR:
Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

ESTRAGON:
(highly excited). An erection!

--- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.

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У многих пожилых мужчин основным симптомом коронвируса является словесный понос.

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“The Greek word which designates the Sage belongs etymologically to sapio, I taste, sapiens, the tasting one, sisyphos, the man of the most delicate taste;
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Science without thus selecting, without such delicate taste, pounces upon everything knowable, in the blind covetousness to know all at any price; philosophical thinking however is always on the track of the things worth knowing, on the track of the great and most important discernments. ”
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"That is great," she says, and therewith she raises man above the blind, untamed covetousness of his thirst for knowledge.”

--- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays / Collected Works, Volume Two.”

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Судя по записям и обсуждениям у арбато-часовщиков, трамповату ситуация с коронавирусом ничему не научит. Одна надежда, что их дети насмотрятся в карантине на эту глупость и пойдут голoсовать.




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The eternal and exclusive Becoming, the total instability of all reality and actuality, which continually works and becomes and never is, as Heraclitus teaches—is an awful and appalling conception, and in its effects most nearly related to that sensation, by which during an earthquake one loses confidence in the firmly-grounded earth.

It required an astonishing strength to translate this effect into its opposite, into the sublime, into happy astonishment.

Heraclitus accomplished this through an observation of the proper course of all Becoming and Passing, which he conceived of under the form of polarity, as the divergence of a force into two qualitatively different, opposite actions, striving after reunion.

A quality is set continually at variance with itself and separates itself into its opposites: these opposites continually strive again one towards another.

The common people of course think to recognise something rigid, completed, consistent; but the fact of the matter is that at any instant, bright and dark, sour and sweet are side by side and attached to one another like two wrestlers of whom sometimes the one succeeds, sometimes the other. ”.

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays / Collected Works, Volume Two.”

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