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Clutter is the language of the Pentagon calling an invasion a “reinforced protective reaction strike” and justifying its vast budgets on the need for “counterforce deterrence.” As George Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English
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“Je demande pardon aux enfants d’avoir dédié ce livre à une grande personne. J’ai une excuse sérieuse : cette grande personne est le meilleur ami que j’ai au monde. J’ai une autre excuse : cette grande personne peut tout comprendre, même les livres pour enfants. J’ai une troisième excuse : cette grande personne habite la France où elle a faim et froid. Elle a besoin d’être consolée. Si toutes ces excuses ne suffisent pas, je veux bien dédier ce livre à l’enfant qu’a été autrefois cette grande personne. Toutes les grandes personnes ont d’abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d’entre elles s’en souviennent.) Je corrige donc ma dédicace : A Léon Werth quand il était petit garçon”
― Livres de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustré): Le Petit Prince, Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, Courrier sud, Citadelle
― Livres de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustré): Le Petit Prince, Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, Courrier sud, Citadelle
“L’usage d’un instrument savant n’a pas fait de toi un technicien sec. Il me semble qu’ils confondent but et moyen ceux qui s’effraient par trop de nos progrès techniques. Quiconque lutte dans l’unique espoir de biens matériels, en effet, ne récolte rien qui vaille de vivre.”
― Livres de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustré): Le Petit Prince, Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, Courrier sud, Citadelle
― Livres de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustré): Le Petit Prince, Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, Courrier sud, Citadelle
“Alberto Cairo has identified four common features of a good data visualization: It contains reliable information. The design has been chosen so that relevant patterns become noticeable. It is presented in an attractive manner, but appearance should not get in the way of honesty, clarity and depth. When appropriate, it is organized in a way that enables some exploration.”
― The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
― The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
“To the rural mind the metropolis appears an entity; in reality it is an empire. A journey from the extreme north to the extreme south, from Muswell Hill to Dulwich, is less easily accomplished, and often less speedily, than a journey from London to Birmingham.”
― The Quest of the Simple Life
― The Quest of the Simple Life
“Nobody has made the point better than George Orwell in his translation into modern bureaucratic fuzz of this famous verse from Ecclesiastes: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Orwell’s version goes: Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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Romain’s 2025 Year in Books
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