Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil;
Ami lecteur: songez à ne pas passer votre vie à haïr et à avoir peur; #PoliticalEconomy#Management#Governance
…et puis on recommence encore le lendemain
avec seulement la même règle que la veille
et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares
de même que les grandes douleurs
comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin… -Cros
Elite schools are asking applicants how they handled disagreements: ‘We are looking for students who want to be bridge builders’ https://t.co/OPcVCY0L5i
America is a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of laws.
It is finally time to turn away from performance politics and toward policy that honors both those traditions.
My latest column:
https://t.co/bNwHJZvkg2
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving – it doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.”
— Jalal al-Din Rumi https://t.co/1WFsBHtTv5
Saudi Arabia has changed at a rapid pace since the reckless, early MbS years. It is not and will not become a democracy but it is now focused on stabilizing regional tensions & boosting trade. If Canada is serious about diversifying partnerships, it needs to include Saudi.
Like Modi, it's a good idea for Canada to invite Mohammed bin Salman to the G7 (in June in Canada).
Purists will complain, but Saudi Arabia is an increasingly indispensable player in the Middle East and beyond. Canada has to engage with it more.
https://t.co/B8ClM0T6Ng
Is Trump a symptom or the cause of a breakdown in liberal world order? FP’s @RaviReports believes that Trump has brought an abrupt turn in a trend line that was already moving away from the post-Cold War order.
Learn more: https://t.co/uVxSGRnJhz
Action without attachment to its fruits—where the intention is grounded in duty, devotion, or the common good—is a path to spiritual liberation. -Bhagavad Git
La pureté de l’âme, l’absence de toute émotions haineuse, prolonge sans doute la durée de la jeunesse.
“The purity of the soul, the absence of all hateful emotions, undoubtedly prolongs the duration of youth.”
— Stendhal
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles" -Kerouac
Ostracized by the West for 25 years and saddled by a debt pile, the wooing of the United Arab Emirates by Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has handed the economy a lifeline. https://t.co/pKOzwrftJp via @economics