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Issue 678           27 October 2012

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Quotes
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The world is full of willing[1] people, some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them.
  - Robert Frost

Fallacies[2] do not cease[3] to be fallacies because they become
fashions.
  - G. K. Chesterton

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
  - Bret Harte

The greater the ignorance[4] the greater the dogmatism[5].
  - Sir William Osler

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Everyday Wisdom Lines
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The mind is like a parachute[6]; it works much better when it's open!

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive, anyway.

Good health is merely[7] the slowest possible rate[8] at which one can
die.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue[9].

The only difference between a rut[10] and a grave[11] is the depth.

I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path.

Indecision[12] is the key to flexibility.

I always wanted to be a procrastinator[13], never got around to[14]
it.

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Vocabulary
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[ 1] ready to do something and does not mind doing it
[ 2] false notion, incorrect reasoning or a conclusion based on one
[ 3] end, stop
[ 4] lack of knowledge, being uneducated, unaware or uninformed
[ 5] arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
[ 6] a device that makes it safe to jump out of an aeroplane
[ 7] only
[ 8] speed
[ 9] sculpted or cast likeness of a famous person in stone, bronze, or
     wood
[10] a sunken track made by vehicles passing; this sentence is also a
     play with the idiom: is/stuck in a rut (my life is in a rut: it's
     very boring and nothing makes it better)
[11] the place dug in the ground where the coffin with the dead body
     is put
[12] a state of not being able to decide or choose
[13] a person who puts off or delays everything
[14] get around to doing sth: to find time to do something

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Translation
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A világ tele van hajlandó emberekkel, egyesek hajlandóak dolgozni, a
többi pedig hajlandó hagyni őket.
  - Robert Frost

A téves eszmék nem lesznek kevésbé tévesek attól, hogy divatossá
válnak.
  - G. K. Chesterton

Az egyetlen biztos dolog a szerencsében, hogy változik.
  - Bret Harte

Minél nagyobb a tudatlanság, annál erősebb a saját hiedelmek
szajkózása.
  - Sir William Osler

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Mindennapi Bölcsesség
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Az elme olyan mint az ejtőernyő; sokkal jobban működik, ha nyitott.

A törhetetlen játék kitűnően használható más játékok eltörésére.

Soha se vedd az életet komolyan. Élve úgysem kerül ki belőle senki.

A jó egészség csupán a lehető leglassabb módja a halálnak.

Fogadd el, hogy bizonyos napokon a galamb vagy, más napokon pedig a
szobor.

Az egyetlen különbség a (megszokott) kerékvágás és a sír között azok
mélysége.

Nem bánom, ha sehova nem jutok, míg az út érdekes.

A határozatlanság a rugalmasság kulcsa.

Mindig halogató szerettem volna lenni, de soha nem tudtam rávenni
magam.

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Vocabulary Extra
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fallacy n. pl. fal•la•cies
 1. A false notion.
 2. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid
    inference.
 3. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
 4. The quality of being deceptive.

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Quotations from Literature
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The secret of it lies in a fallacy, For, assuming that if one thing is
or becomes, a second is or becomes, men imagine that, if the second
is, the first likewise is or becomes.
  - The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

To one imbued from infancy with the fascinating fallacy that all men
are born equal, unquestioning submission to authority is not easily
mastered, and the American volunteer soldier in his "green and salad
days" is among the worst known.
  - Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose

The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of
arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents
of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and
conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational,
concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into
necessary and unnecessary-- these and other great forms of thought are
all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first
invented by Plato.
  - an Introduction to Plato's The Republic

"Fallacy upon fallacy!" he cried. "Never in all my life have I heard
so many fallacies uttered in one short hour. And besides, young man, I
must tell you that you have said nothing new. I learned all that at
college before you were born. Jean Jacques Rousseau enunciated your
socialistic theory nearly two centuries ago. A return to the soil,
forsooth! Reversion! Our biology teaches the absurdity of it. It has
been truly said that a little learning is a dangerous thing, and you
have exemplified it to-night with your madcap theories. Fallacy upon
fallacy! I was never so nauseated in my life with overplus of
fallacy. That for your immature generalizations and childish
reasonings!"
  - The Iron Heel  by London, Jack

Such a fallacy may have been the less perceived, as most of the
popular governments of antiquity were of the democratic species; and
even in modern Europe, to which we owe the great principle of
representation, no example is seen of a government wholly popular, and
founded, at the same time, wholly on that principle. If Europe has the
merit of discovering this great mechanical power in government, by the
simple agency of which the will of the largest political body may be
concentred, and its force directed to any object which the public good
requires, America can claim the merit of making the discovery the
basis of unmixed and extensive republics. It is only to be lamented
that any of her citizens should wish to deprive her of the additional
merit of displaying its full efficacy in the establishment of the
comprehensive system now under her consideration.
  - Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison

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Etymology
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late 15c., "deception, false statement," from L. fallacia "deception,"
from fallax (gen. fallacis) "deceptive," from fallere "deceive."
Specific sense in logic dates from 1550s.

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