Kategorie: Allgemein
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Transcending Space
St. Augustine, translated by Edward B. Pusey, D. D. (1999/AD 400). Confessions, Book III, Chapter I. Story behind the Passage Yesterday someone reminded me of St. Augustine’s Confessions. I will forever be grateful to this person for mentioning this book. I did not actually deserve it because my text that triggered this clue will never compare…
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Work State And Education
Committee of the Corporation, Academical Faculty (1828). Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College. 7. Story behind the Passage You know me as a sometimes critical, sometimes silly, sometimes emotional writer. Today, I am all of this together and in addition, I am in a very bleak mood. The pictures reaching us this morning…
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War And Action
Emcke, Carolin (2016). Von den Kriegen: Briefe an Freunde, 188. Story behind the Passage Well, the story behind the passage is more than obvious today. It is happening seven flight hours away from Germany. There, Afghanis are being killed by the Taliban. They are stopped from escaping. Women are beaten and kicked in the streets. Children…
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Slug Sex
Stable, Michele, and Linda Gamlin (1990). Wissen für Kinder: Tiere, 15. Story behind the Passage No, I am not kidding. Yesterday in the garden while chaffing some wood, I happened to notice a slug couple underneath a shadowy bush. Actually, that was the bush where I had buried the snake from a few weeks ago. The…
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Will Moves Mountains
Cliff, Jimmy (1970). “You Can Get It if You Really want.” Musixmatch Story behind the Passage How much needs to happen for people to finally ACT? I am not talking about any specific action. I am simply talking about my life-long topic: the gap between thinking, talking, and acting. The question is always on my…
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Book Of The Week Teresa Von Avila
Prinz, Alois (2017). Teresa von Avila: Die Biographie. Geschichte hinter der Buchauswahl Diese Biographie über Teresa von Avila ist sozusagen eine Biographie über die Biographie. Teresa selbst schrieb zu ihren Lebzeiten ihre Geschichte in La Vida auf. Prinz integriert Erkenntnisse aus dieser und weiteren Schriften in seine eigene historische Recherche. Diese Mischung erlaubt es, zwischen…
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Soccer Language And Leadership
Roberts, Wess (1987). Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, 25. Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation, I suddenly noticed that 80% of our analogies revolved around soccer. We compared business characters to famous players, we talked about certain moves in a way that you describe a player’s typical position in the game. And altogether…
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Book Of The Week Projekt Weltethos
Küng, Hans (1990). Projekt Weltethos. Story behind the Passage This book was recommended to me by my pastor. Well, he is not exactly “my” pastor, of course, and I am not even “his” church member anymore, but that is a different story. Or, wait a minute, actually, it is not a different story at all!…
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Goals And Life
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., and Jeff Cox (1992/1984). The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Story behind the Passage I have to admit, there is not really a path-breaking passage in the book for me. It is rather the title that made me pick it today: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. I wrote about…
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Money Or Politics
Wallace, Janet (2012). The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, 196. Story behind the Passage The day before yesterday when I wrote about Wall Street women, I was quite surprised that I had not written about Hetty Green yet. Or maybe I have and I am simply too stupid to Google my…