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Wise words.. Lord Bertrand Russell.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell,
3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and social
critic.
As an academic, he worked in
philosophy, mathematics, and logic.
His work has had a considerable
influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of
analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of
language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
He was a public intellectual,
historian, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the
most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.
Russell was one of the early
20th century's most prominent logicians and one of the founders of analytic
philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague
G. E. Moore and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore
led the British "revolt against idealism".
Together with his former teacher
A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the
development of classical logic, and a major attempt to reduce the whole of
mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting"
has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy".
Russell was a pacifist who
championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League. He occasionally
advocated preventive nuclear war, before the opportunity provided by the atomic
monopoly had passed and he decided he would "welcome with enthusiasm"
world government.
He went to prison for his
pacifism during World War I.
Later, Russell concluded that the war against
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a necessary "lesser of two evils" and
also criticized Stalinist totalitarianism, condemned the United States' war on
Vietnam and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament.
In 1950, Russell was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant
writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of
thought". He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932),
Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963).
Eddie Lang, Jazz man
Doc Watson
From Wikipedia (with edits by me)
Arthel Lane "Doc"
Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was a guitarist, songwriter, and singer
of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy
awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
His fingerstyle and flatpicking
skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly
regarded.
Blind from a young age, he
performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years
with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an
accident on the family farm.
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Agnes Letestu
From Wikipedia
Agnès
Letestu (born 1 February 1971) is a French ballet dancer who decided to start
ballet when she saw her first ballet on TV (Swan Lake). Then she had the
opportunity to start ballet as a hobby, and her teacher, Mr. Bertin, persuaded
her to audition for the Opéra Ballet School which she joined when she was 10.
She was a shy but graceful pupil and was destined to be at the top of the
company. Agnes entered the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1987 at the age of 16,
became Coryphée in 1988, Sujet in 1989 and première danseuse in 1993. She
demonstrated her talents to this major ballet company and was named étoile
after a performance of Swan Lake in October 1997. As of 2009, Agnes Letestu was
nearly at the end of her ballerina career (she was then 38) but she hopes to
continue to live her passion for ballet through teaching to the youngest. In
October, 2013, she appeared in 'La Dame aux Camelias' at The Paris Opera Ballet
in her farewell performance for the company, portraying Marguerite Gautier to
great acclaim.
In
the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe), Etudes (Lander), Gamzatti in La
Bayadère (Petipa/ Nureyev), Glass Pieces (Robbins), Serenade (Balanchine), Le
Jeune homme et la Mort (Petit), Bathilde/Myrtha in Mats Ek's Giselle,
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Terpsichore in Apollo, The pas de deux in Agon.;
Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux Camelias.
• 1989 : Golden Medal of the Eurovision
Dance Prize.
• 1990 : Gold Medal of the Varna
International Ballet Competition.
• 2007 : Prix Benois de la Danse.
She's is forever a bit over the top, but its still an excellent point.
“I struggle for light-desperately” Anaïs Nin,
Mirages
