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Oct. 11：François Mauriac, Eleanor Roosevelt

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France
Died: September 1, 1970, Paris, France
Spouse: Jeanne Lafon (m. 1913–1970)
Children: Claude Mauriac, Claire Mauriac, Luce Mauriac, Jean Mauriac
Quotes

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.





François Mauriac, The Art of Fiction No. 2
“Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter. Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its…
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her ... Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1884, New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 7, 1962, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Full name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Children: Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., MORE
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.


She was fierce in her support of civil rights, acceptance of European refugees and the need to end empires. It is tempting to think that in a different era, Eleanor Roosevelt could have become president of the United States

羅斯福夫人回憶錄Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 / 伊莉納・羅斯福著

The Economist
2016年11月2日 1:50
In her newspaper column, “My Day”, she urged that refugees from abroad be let in to America. “People are not throwing Americans out of work to employ refugees,” she wrote in 1939, sounding a theme that resonates today

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July 7, Marc Chagall, David McCullough,

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The White House has declared a state of emergency after a cyber attack forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline.

  F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack The attack by DarkSide, a relatively new criminal group believed to have roots in Eastern Europe, exposed the vulnerability of key U.S. infrastructure. This is how the Colonial Pipeline became a vital artery for fuel. The White House has declared a state of emergency after a cyber attack forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline.  Experts said that  gasoline prices are unlikely to be affected  if the pipeline is back to normal in the next few days. But the incident — the worst cyberattack to date on critical U.S. infrastructure — should serve as a wakeup call to companies about the vulnerabilities they face,  says The Associated Press .  【網絡安全】美國最大汽油管道被黑客攻擊 美國最大汽油和柴油管道系統的Colonial Pipeline在受到網絡攻擊後將其系統下線，令美國東部沿海主要城市加油站的成品油供應面臨威脅。Colonial Pipeline已聘請協力廠商網絡安全公司來調查並聯繫執法部門和其他聯邦機構。黑客對關鍵基礎設施的威脅一直在增長，促使白宮制訂計劃來提高公用事業及其供應商的安全性。
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4月26：Marcus Aurelius, Eugène Delacroix, Ludwig Wittgenstein, I. M. Pei, Guernica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26 Births 121  –  Marcus Aurelius , Roman emperor (d. 180) "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil." --from MEDITATIONS by  Marcus Aurelius Google 機械翻譯： 早上醒來時，告訴自己：今天我所處理的人將會干擾，不情願，傲慢，不誠實，嫉妒和 猥褻 ，因為他們不能善惡。 - 由馬庫斯·奧雷柳斯（Medcus）提供 黑體字翻譯錯誤 British Museum The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was born  # onthisday  in AD 121. This ring contains a gold coin from his reign – an aureus from AD 167. Carrying an image of the emperor like this was believed to be a powerful good luck charm.  http://ow.ly/jBWP30b2Yid "Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious, unsocial. All this has afflicted them through
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