Quote of the day

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."
~ Goethe

Quote of the day

"I do respect very much the elephant, but would you give him the chair of zoology?"
~ Harvard professor Roman Jakobson objecting to Vladimir Nabokov's bid for chairmanship of the Russian literature department.

Quote of the day 2

"The quesiton is not "how has Bolshevism changed Russia?" but " how has Russia changed Bolshevism? "

~ George Kennan

Quote of the day: Old French Saying

"Cet animal est tres mechant; quand on l'attaque, il se defend."
~ An old French Saying
Translation: "What a wicked animal; when attacked, he defends himself."

Causation and Correlation

Quote of the day

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

~John Kenneth Galbraith

Quote of the day

"Анхны хайрын тухай бодол адуунаас унтаж хоцорсон цагаан унага шиг сэтгэлийн манан дундуур янцгаан давхиж айсуй"

~ Ж. Лхагва

なんと響き美しいモンゴル語だ。