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| + | {{Quotation| In 1835 Disraeli and Daniel O'Connell quarrelled publicly over press reports that O'Connell had been called a 'traitor and incendiary' by Disraeli. The pair were to fight a duel but the police intervened and Disraeli was bound over to keep the peace. This was the first of their confrontations. In a heated debate in parliament, O'Connell referred to Disraeli's Jewish ancestry in disparaging terms to which Disraeli responded: | ||
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| + | Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.}} See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli#1830s. Probably apocryphal. | ||
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| + | The upside of being fired by creeps who don't view you as enough of a hard left lemming serf, is not having to be a hard left lemming serf beholden to creeps. That is all I would have to say to the young lady no longer working for some cretinous literary agency led by creeps. https://twitter.com/lynnchu/status/1355891353977319425 | ||
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Revision as of 15:19, 1 February 2021
This is for potentially useful phrases.
In 1835 Disraeli and Daniel O'Connell quarrelled publicly over press reports that O'Connell had been called a 'traitor and incendiary' by Disraeli. The pair were to fight a duel but the police intervened and Disraeli was bound over to keep the peace. This was the first of their confrontations. In a heated debate in parliament, O'Connell referred to Disraeli's Jewish ancestry in disparaging terms to which Disraeli responded:
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli#1830s. Probably apocryphal.
The upside of being fired by creeps who don't view you as enough of a hard left lemming serf, is not having to be a hard left lemming serf beholden to creeps. That is all I would have to say to the young lady no longer working for some cretinous literary agency led by creeps. https://twitter.com/lynnchu/status/1355891353977319425
"Epater les wokesoisie"
Why not be condescending? Professors are always having trouble with college administrators who because they have a big salary, and a fancy title like "Provost and Vice President", think they are better than mere scholars.
"I've always said the most useful part of game theory is just describing Players, Actions, and Payoffs. Now I'm wondering whether it might be just the idea of putting yourself in someone else's place. I was just talking with people today about a situation where most observers don't know them personally but do know someone on on the other side, so they'll be blamed whether they deserve it or not."
"Bubblehead: A member of the Liberal Establishment who is trapped within the New York Times echo chamber, unable to conceive that people in other times and places could disagree with him unless they were evil, unable to read Limbaugh, Churchill, Plato, or a calculus text without mental anguish."
We who are canaries in the coal mine should perhaps "sing like a canary".
