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Les paroles qui me vibrent

The words that influence me

Éducation et Développement personnel

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can ... Teach him that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found...Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, tough with tough people...Steer him away from envy if you can...Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win...Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill.

-A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher, auteur actuel inconnu

Cette parole est aussi aimé par Malala Yousafzai

All religions are paths to God.
-Pope Francis

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

-Richard Branson

Procrastination is an emotional problem, not a time management problem

-Super Productivity App

Decisions cost time. So establishing routines can be very helpful.

-Super Productivity App

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

Mess create stress : Clean your desk (and your desktop)!

-Super Productivity App

Problem solving

Aucun problème ne résiste à l’assaut d’une pensée soutenue.

-Voltaire

When the solution to a problem escapes you, one of the best things you can do is take a walk.

-Brilliant.org

La discrimination, le système, l'exode

My husband, Kerim, had left Xinjiang in 2002 to look for work. He tried first in Kazakhstan, but came back disillusioned after a year. Then in Norway. Then France, where he had applied for asylum. Once he was settled there, our two girls and I would join him.

Kerim had always known he would leave Xinjiang. The idea had taken root even before we were hired by the oil company. We had met as students in Urumqi, the largest city in Xinjiang province, and, as new graduates, had begun looking for work. This was in 1988. In the job ads in the newspapers, there was often a little phrase in small print: No Uighurs. This never left him. While I tried to overlook the evidence of discrimination that followed us everywhere, with Kerim, it became an obsession.

After graduation, we were offered jobs as engineers at the oil company in Karamay. We were lucky. But then there was the red envelope episode. At lunar new year, when the boss handed out the annual bonuses, the red envelopes given to Uighur workers contained less than those given to our colleagues who belonged to China’s dominant ethnic group, the Han. Soon after, all the Uighurs were transferred out of the central office and moved to the outskirts of town. A small group objected, but I didn’t dare. A few months later, when a senior position came up, Kerim applied. He had the right qualifications and the seniority. There was no reason he shouldn’t get the position. But the post went to an employee who belonged to a Han worker who didn’t even have an engineering degree. One night in 2000, Kerim came home and announced that he had quit. “I’ve had enough,” he said.

-Our souls are dead par Mme G. Haitiwaji

If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you’d be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you’d be born into — you wouldn’t choose 100 years ago. You wouldn’t choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You’d choose right now. If you had to choose a time to be, in the words of Lorraine Hansberry, “young, gifted, and black” in America, you would choose right now.

-Barack Obama’s Commencement Address to the Howard University Class of 2016

President Barack Obama is presented with a Degree of Doctor of Laws honorary degree with help from Vernon Jordan, Board of Trustees Member, during the Howard University class of 2016 commencement ceremony at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 7, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama was presented with a Doctor of Laws honourary degree by Vernon Jordan, Board of Trustees Member, during the class of 2016 commencement ceremony at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 7, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

欲加之罪,何患无辞

-《左传·僖公十年》

La croyance et les contre-croyances

With the threat of physical force again visible in the background, this woman’s photo highlights the widespread use of “guilt by association”.

Documents describe her son as having “strong religious leanings” because he doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke. As a result, he was jailed for 10 years on terrorism charges.

But she appears on a list of “relatives of the detained” - among the thousands placed under suspicion because of the “crimes” of their families.

-The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps, BBC News

我们做某些事,不是因为它会带来利益,而是因为它是对的
(Nous faisons des choses, pas toujours cars c'est rentable, mais plutôt que c'est juste)

-邓海燕,笔名"二大爷" Haiyan Deng, pen name "second chef"

La culture

Everyone is naked at the banya.

-Ostotsky justifying the nude scene in his epic war drama The Dawns Here Are Quiet, 1972, USSR
naked banya

La philosophie

After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies.
-Isaac Asimov

La guerre

Much has been made of the fact that during the Great War, more than 300 British soldiers were executed; they were somewhat pointlessly granted a posthumous pardon by the then defence secretary Des Browne in 2006. But who remembers the more than 300,000 Russian soldiers shot for cowardice in 1941-45, 12,500 of them at Stalingrad alone? As Marshal Zhukov said, with a touch of dry Bolshevik humour, it took a very brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

-Geoffrey Wheatcrot, The Myth of the Good War

When the Red Army reached Germany it celebrated victory with the worst act of mass rape in history

-Geoffrey Wheatcrot, The Myth of the Good War

I'informatique

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

-Linux Terminal Commandes

le traumatisme d'origine

Tu vas te faire sortir; mais ça va prendre plus de temps que tu ne le prévoyais; et tu auras besoin plus d'aide que tu ne le souhaitais.

-Marlène Siebler

Il n’y a rien de pire que la culpabilité. Il ne faut pas te punir avec elle.

-Vincent Siebler