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Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Your passion should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. - Kelvin Kelly - 열정은 너에게 꼭 맞는 것이어야 한다. 하지만 네 삶의 목표는 너를 넘어서는 것이어야 한다. - 켈빈 켈리 - In 2020, writer, tech thinker, and founding executive editor of “Wired” magazine Kevin Kelly began compiling tidbits of life advice he had accumulated over his 68 years of life. Three years later, he published “Excellent Advice for Living:..
Tricky Riddles and answers - 20 tricky riddles - If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many apples do you have? What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary? What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a year? What gets wetter the more it dries? I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What am I? How much dirt is in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide? David's parents have..
Life is like riding a bicycle. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein - 인생을 자전거 타기와 같다. 넘어지지 않으려면, 계속 나아가야 한다. - 알버트 아인슈타인 - To Albert Einstein's consternation, his son Eduard was a big fan of Sigmund Freud. He had a portrait of the psychoanalyst hung over his bed, and at the age of 15 would often quote Freud offhand to his friends. It was no secret that Albert disapproved..
I learned that I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela - 나는 용기가 두려움이 없는 것이 아니라 두려움을 극복하는 것임을 배웠다. 용기 있는 자는 두려움을 느끼지 않는 것이 아니라 그 두려움을 극복하는 사람이다. - 넬슨 만델라 - South African leader Nelson Mandela spent half a century fighting against the oppressive system of apartheid that segregate..
Words are the clothing of our thoughts. Words are the clothing of our thoughts. - Jonathan Swift - 말은 우리 생각의 옷이다 - 조너선 스위프트 - Among the works of 18th-century Anglo-Irish author and clergyman Jonathan Swift, none is more well known than “Gulliver's Travels.” In the 300 years since its publication, the story of Gulliver has been referenced in countless songs, movies, and television shows. Swift was a satirist raised on rationalism and c..
How do you tell Australians apart from New Zealanders? There’s an old joke told around Sydney, where an Aussie and a Kiwi are out having a few beers together. On the walk home, they decide to stop on the bridge over the harbour to have a pee. Feeling a bit quick-witted, the New Zealander looks down all the way to the water, his member hanging fully, and exclaims “Oooh… isn’t the water cold tonight…?!” His Aussie friend looked at him and said “Too ri..
There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. - Helen Fagin - 현실보다 희망이 우리를 이끌게 할 때도 있다. - 헬렌 페건 - In the Warsaw Ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland, 21-year-old Helen Fagin defied the fascist regime by secretly teaching Jewish children mathematics, Latin, and the transportive wonders of literature. After smuggling in a copy of “Gone With the Wind,” Fagin recounted the story of Scarlett O’Ha..
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. - Terry Pratchett - 시작점으로 돌아가는 것은 시작하지 않는 것과 절대 비교할 수 없다. - 테리 프래쳇 - Discworld, the fictional universe that bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett created for his 41-book fantasy series of the same name, is nothing if not a chance to see the world differently. His imaginative universe is a flat disc carried on the backs of four e..