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  • Apr. 4th, 2005 at 3:43 PM
naanima: (caffine)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
-- Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory 1996.

Because I need a break from maths and law, and [livejournal.com profile] sadieko started it.

And:

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
-- Aral Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999.

[EDIT: Pope John Paul II has died. I'm a bit stunned. He was the last public figure of his generation that I truly admired. The Queen Mother Elizabeth and Mother Teresa being the other two figures I admired greatly that had passed away in the past decade. Talk about the end of an era.]

[EDIT 2: And Andre Norton passed away on the 17th of March?!]

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[identity profile] code-renegade.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2005 01:41 pm (UTC)
It was a nice little era, but it ended for me a little sooner thanks to a BBC radio program I heard one day. The program was about 'goddesses', and they talked about modern day goddesses like Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, Florence Nightingale, etc. The program host then lamented that the current generation doesn't seem to have any goddesses to look up to or admire, so they took the program to the streets and asked young people of our age a question along the lines of - "Who do you think of when you think of a modern day goddess? A role model for all the people of your generation?"

The answer was overwhelmingly...

*drumroll*

Beyonce.

...

Our generation is d00med.
[identity profile] naanima.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2005 11:49 pm (UTC)
Beyonce?! Beyonce?!

OMFG! We are not just d00med. We are DOOMED! *sings the DOOM song* (Zim is my hero.) See, this is why I hate media at times. And what have Beyonce ever done that deserve to be admired?

The world is going to hell in a battered hand-basket.

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