That means that today is day number 119 of the year or 246 days before the end of the year.
“Fear of future is wrong for young people in love.”
—Charlie Chan (fictional detective)
“I’m impatient with history. I think history is an on-going mistake. I’m not talking here about the history of spirituality. History is written in red, in killing, bloodshed, and war. The justification for war was when the source of human existence was the land and natural resources. Once that need was replaced by science and technology, why war? Why armies? Why learn the past? In the age of helicopters, is it important to know how many elephants Hannibal had? I say, learn the future. I tell my children to develop their imagination rather than their memory.”
—Shimon Peres (Israeli statesman and Nobel laureate)
“Every person in this world can think of multiple reasons why you owe him money.”
— Anonymous Maxim-Maker
The last known living person born in the XIXth century (i.e., before January 1, 1901) was Nabi Tajima of Japan, who died early in 2018 at the age of 117, leaving 36 known supercentenarians (people aged 110 or more), of who 18 were Japanese.
Burma floated its currency on April 1st, 2012. Over the previous several days the official rate had been 6.8 kyat to the dollar. At the float, the exchange rate was set at 818 kyat to the dollar, over 120 times as much and very close to the black market rate. The government expressed the hope that this would improve the investment climate for foreign companies.
The introduction of yoga into school gym programs has been resisted in many conservative districts on the grounds that it is “eastern mysticism” and is hence anti-Christian. In response to such concerns, Catholic college in Kansas renamed its yoga class “lifestyle fitness” but did not change the content, since the problem was only the name.
In 2015 Mount Holyoke College (in Massachusetts) cancelled its production of the feminist play The Vagina Monologues on the grounds that it assumed women had vaginas, which was considered offensive to transgender students, according to student spokesperson Erin Murphy.
“Non recipit stultus verba prudentiae, nisi ea dixeris quae versantur in corde eius.
[A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in offering his own opinion.]
—proverbs 18:2
常将有日思无日，莫待无时想有时。
(Cháng jiāng yǒu rì sī wú rì, mò dài wú shí xiǎng yǒu shí.)
"When you are rich, think on the days of your poverty, but when you are poor do not think of being rich." (Be frugal at all times.)
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