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Typhoon wrote:
[Unlike Christmas Eve, which has become marketed as Valentine's day for the young and analogous to Thanksgiving for families,
Japanese companies have no idea how to market Easter.]

Typhoon wrote:What are the odds?

Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."

— An old Jew of Galicia

Typhoon wrote:.

Simple Minded wrote:.

As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."

— An old Jew of Galicia

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The old Jew of Galicia was spot on.

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Heracleum Persicum wrote:

Typhoon wrote:.

Simple Minded wrote:.

As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."

— An old Jew of Galicia

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The old Jew of Galicia was spot on.

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Seconded .. and .. learned a lesson, Simple Minded


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Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."

— An old Jew of Galicia

“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

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“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

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“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

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“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”

noddy wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."

— An old Jew of Galicia

I searched on that and found it was a preface to polish poets Czesław Miłosz book.

turns out he is quite the goldmine of amusing quotables.

“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

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“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

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“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

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“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”

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