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Observing Wittgenstein’s Ruler in real time.

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@QuintusCurtius Numismatic warrior.

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B F Skinner started with the lever, not the food. Think about it.

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@LordIxabert It was a civil war.

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@KerryHolmekb Poor chap must use this regularly, he can’t afford a belt and tie.

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When you’re at a remote location and can’t log in to a service because a thousand buffoons are desperately trying to ignore reality and watch TicTwat shorts. #fml etc.

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In the same way that no one can remember when times weren’t hard and money wasn’t scarce no one can remember when there was no accountability and there were no standards. Because that’s when families, societies and civilisations fail.

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@ericweinstein How long was wasted on String Theory? Double half its length.

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Spot of Eldbjørg scraping away at some Bruckner to start the day https://t.co/xtkEC9n0hc

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@husafell_stone Chopin wrote for the salon, Mahler wrote for vast tracts of Eurasia. It’s all a matter of scale, in both space and time. Sort of like The Rock Horror Picture Show, but without the mascara and I IV V progressions.

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150,000 academic and non-fiction books on three miles of shelving. The Norrington Room at Blackwell’s, Broad Street, Oxford, England.

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Enjoying a piping hot Ontario in Oxford this morning

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@QuintusCurtius “…the grim reality of Fortune's verdicts.” - If you wanted a man to reach for whiskey and a gun that’s the line - ! I’m going to have a shower and start the day again.

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@gregoriouscoin @HSBC_UK Genius - ! Didn’t work…but good thinking that man.

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How does one scan a QR code with the phone camera when one is attempting to make a payment from the phone? @HSBC_UK

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@paulg They call it La Manche we call it The English Channel. We’re used to this sort of thing in cultures with different languages.

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@paulg It's lovely to see His Majesty's Subjects on the island of West Britain thriving and developing a proper British habit of naming everything after themselves and wearing ties. Jolly good show.

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@avidseries It's lovely to see His Majesty's Subjects on the island of West Britain thriving and developing a proper British habit of naming everything after themselves and wearing ties. Jolly good show.

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Has the world run out of lavalier microphones?

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Danae and God in gold. – Whence comes this immoderate impatience which nowadays turns a man into a criminal under circumstances which would be more compatible with an opposite tendency?

For if one man employs false weights, another burns his house down after he has insured it for a large sum, a third counterfeits false coins, if three-quarters of the upper classes indulge in permitted fraud and have the stock exchange and speculations on their conscience: what drives them?

Not actual need, for they are not so badly off, perhaps they even eat and drink without a care – but they are afflicted day and night by a fearful impatience at the slow way with which their money is accumulating and by an equally fearful pleasure in and love of accumulated money.

In this impatience and this love, however, there turns up again that fanaticism of the lust for power which was in former times inflamed by the belief one was in possession of the truth and which bore such beautiful names that one could thenceforward venture to be inhuman with a good conscience (to burn Jews, heretics and good books and exterminate entire higher cultures such as those of Peru and Mexico).

The means employed by the lust for power have changed, but the same volcano continues to glow, the impatience and the immoderate love demand their sacrifice: and what one formerly did ‘for the sake of God’ one now does for the sake of money, that is to say, for the sake of that which now gives the highest feeling of power and good conscience.

Will To Power 196

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Tiede (3,715 metres) from A320 (the plane, not the link road from Staines to Guildford in Surrey)

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@QuintusCurtius Imagine the confusion in Oppenheimer’s office if they’d used Toyotas to build Hiroshima.