Sunday, November 1, 2020

Forever Young

 "Some are like water, some are like the heat

Some are a melody and some are the beat

Sooner or later they all will be gone

Why don't they stay young?" Alphaville: Forever Young

Monday, May 25, 2020

The Horse, the Stag, and the Hunter



A quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. 

The Hunter agreed but said: “If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece
of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon you as we follow the enemy.” 

The Horse agreed to the conditions, and the Hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then, with the aid of the Hunter, the Horse soon overcame the Stag and said to the Hunter: 
“Now get off, and remove those things from my mouth and back.” 
“Not so fast, friend,” said the Hunter.

“I have now got you under bit and spur and prefer to keep you as you are at present.”
—“The Horse, the Stag, and the Hunter,” Aesop’s Fables

Friday, April 24, 2020

Quero agradecer o mundo ao meu redor e a tudo que conspira ao meu favor


“Quero agradecer o mundo ao meu redor e a tudo que conspira ao meu favor
Há de me guiar uma estrela magistral, brilho de um maluco pensador
Tentar sorrir se o acaso me mostrar
Que é bem pouco, quase nada o que sei
E se vencido pro meu canto tiver que voltar
Meu amor vou feliz eu tentei” 
Minha Sina, Scarcéus

Monday, February 24, 2020

What you know for sure may be the problem

"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so."
—JOSH BILLINGS

This sentence was used in the movie The Big Short, that tries to explain the economical crash of USA in 2008-2009.

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

"O Brasil tem seu corpo na América e sua alma na África.”
"Brazil has its body in America, but its soul in Africa"
PADRE ANTÔNIO VIEIRA,
missionário jesuíta na Bahia, 1691

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

All you see is all there is

"If all you know is how many times someone hit a target, it is loserthink to judge how accurate they are. You also need to know how many times they missed." Loserthinker