Chesterton Quote
“The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled,
so much as to make settled things strange;
not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”G.K. Chesterton “A Defence of China Shepherdesses” in The Defendant, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (11/12/2021)
Source: John Robson's Words Worth Noting
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Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
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Can modern politicians do nothing competently? At least Nixon's or Clinton's lies held up for a while before crumbling. https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1620817629542842368
🇺🇸 The White House previously said no classified documents had been found at the property in Rehoboth Beach https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/01/joe-bidens-delaware-beach-house-searched-fbi/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675263518
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Certainly we're still waiting for a comprehensive, coherent and workable program from Poilievre. We need one and it may be a long wait. But here he asked a relevant question about consulting contracts and Trudeau responded with totally off-topic verbal yoga. I call it shameful. https://twitter.com/MarcLevesqueEco/status/1620479661078884353
@thejohnrobson I’m certainly no fan of Trudeau, he’s right in saying that Poilievre has no solutions. I may be wrong, but I can’t recall a single concrete policy proposal on his part. He can’t even say what he would have done during the pandemic (I assume nothing). Slogans are not policies.
Ah yes, but in many applications (even beyond the obvious/standard IT usage) as in tables with dates, it's better to do the reverse (yyyy-mmm-dd) because then things sort in chronological order and present in an easy-to-understand sequence.
day-month-year is the most logical and obvious way to do it and i declare vengeance on anyone that uses month-day-year https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1620111664078290945
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