The Greek maxim "know thyself" (gnōthi seauton) was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, likely by the 7th or 6th century BC.

The Greek maxim "know thyself" (gnōthi seauton) was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, likely by the 7th or 6th century BC.

The Royal Albert Hall has classical coffee mornings, usually on Sundays, that are an hour long and feature brilliant, young, performers from The Royal College of Music next door. £14 for a nice cup of coffee, a pastry and a virtuoso performance; an example of Britain at its best.

I Will Survive by Cake
youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU?...

Marie J Blige and George Michael‘s version is a tear jerker too. youtube.com/watch?v=3V72...

Making model buses out of old wine cases?

And when toasting the married couple they would have glazed their arses to the queer old dean.

Won’t be long before you hear the Tsar Spangled Banner then.

The Second Coming

… Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

- Willian Butler Yates, 1919

Any evidence this lay behind Isaiah Berlin's well-known formulation in 'The Crooked Timber Of Humanity' 1990: "… total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted."?

Tip for your Mother: Christmas Day and New Year’s Day are always on the same day of the week. It might help a little bit.

I might change my mind later.

Bryan Magee, the British philosopher and broadcaster, described this rule in his autobiography beautifully. Such people make ‘monuments to their own deficiencies’.

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