Book of Sirach

Book of Sirach

The Book of Sirach (/ˈsaɪræk/, Hebrew: ספר בן-סירא, romanized: Sēper ben-Sîrāʾ), also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus (/ɪˌkliːziˈæstɪkəs/, and abbreviated Ecclus.), is a Jewish work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew.[1]

See also 'The Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira[2]'.

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TRUE FRIENDSHIP

¶ Pleasant speech multiplies friends, and gracious lips, friendly greetings. [Sirach 6,5]

¶ Another is a friend who turns into an enemy, and tells of the quarrel to your disgrace. [Sirach 6,9]

See also 'The Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira[2]'.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Sirach

[2] https://thatgul.blogspot.com/2013/01/sirach.html

B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)

B.C. Forbes

Bertie Charles Forbes (/fɔːrbz/; May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954) was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by B.C. Forbes

Class

¶ Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: "My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind."

Conscience

¶ A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.[2]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._C._Forbes

[2] http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes

Ken Hakuta

Ken Hakuta

Ken Hakuta (born 1951), known as Dr. Fad since 1983, is a Korean-American inventor and television personality.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Ken Hakuta

Money

¶ Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hakuta

YI Sun-sin (1545-1598)

Yi Sun-sin (1545-1598)

Yi Sun-sin (Korean: 이순신; Korean pronunciation: [i.sʰun.ɕin]; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon period.[1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ˈdɛləkrwɑː, ˌdɛləˈkrwɑː/ DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH, French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.[1]

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Works

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853, oil on canvas, h 50.8 x w 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853, oil on canvas, h 50.8 x w 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix

Zoroaster

Zoroaster

Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra or Zartosht, was a religious reformer and the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In about 1000 BC he founded the first documented monotheistic religion in the world and also had an impact on Plato, Pythagoras, and the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Zoroaster

Others

@ Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried:
"For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me?
Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me;
None have I to protect me save Thee;
Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life."

[Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 1.][2][3]

@ Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply:
"No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe,
None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans."

[Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 3.]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zoroaster

[3] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:BCE_deaths

Zusha of Hanipol

Zusha of Hanipol

Rabbi Meshulam Zusha of Hanipol or Meshulum Zusil of Anipoli (1718–1800), Reb Zusha (also spelled Zusya), Reb Zushe, The Rebbe Reb Zusha was an early Hasidic luminary and well-known tzaddik. He was one of the great Hasidic Rebbes of the third generation and member of the academy circle of the Maggid of Mezeritch.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Zusha of Hanipol

@ In the coming world they will not ask me—Why were you not Moses? They will ask me—Why were you not Zusya? [Quoted by Martin Buber in Tales of the Hassidim: The Early Masters, Shocken Books 1968, p. 141][2]

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Book by Rabbi Zoussia of Anapoli, "Menorat Zahav" (Candelabra of Gold). Edition from 1902

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zusha_of_Hanipol

[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zusha_of_Hanipol

Bernard Baars (1946- )

Bernard Baars (1946- )

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, in Amsterdam) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.[1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baars

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.[1]

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Works

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), The Fog Warning, 1885, oil on canvas, h 76.8 x w 123.1 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer

Fritz ZWICKY (1898-1974)

Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974)

Fritz Zwicky (February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Fritz Zwicky

Plan

@ To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. [Fritz Zwicky, Morphological astronomy, The Observatory, Vol. 68, p. 121-143 (1948)]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky