Interactions

'...facial expressions express seven emotions - fear, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, enjoyment, and contempt. These seven emotions individually represent a "family of emotions." In other words, there are many different variations to the type of anger someone might be feeling, and expressing. These emotions and their corresponding micro expressions are shared across cultures.  Since these expressions show our true emotions, our faces often betray us.'

Motivating

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

   Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

   Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

      Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

   Steady thy laden head across a brook;

   Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,

      Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.'

philosophical tendencies

'The second development was the inauguration of a long period of mathematicians’ catching up with the intuition of physicists to produce what has become the subject of differential geometry. Thus, when the Special Relativity of Einstein and Minkowksi consigned the aether and all the properties with which it had been ingeniously endowed to scientific irrelevance, this was seen as a triumph of mathematical model-making.

vraiment précis

White King

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him. The poor King look puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time without saying anything; but Alice was too strong for him, and at last he panted out, `My dear! I really must get a thinner pencil. I can't manage this one a bit; it writes all manner of things that I don't intend -' `What manner of things?' said the Queen, looking over the book (in which Alice had put `the white knight is sliding down the poker. he balances very badly') `That's not a memorandum of your feelings!'

Candlelit

'  It was a late summer morning, a pleasant bite in the September air aided by a southerly breeze.  He lived in a two family house on the edge of Hicks Woods’ small public park and saw with satisfaction as he walked that the stars and stripes were already flying from the flagpole.  Most mornings he drove to work, but he had put his SUV in the shop for its six month service the night before, and today he ambled across the park toward the train station, remembering as he did the countless carnivals, Christmas carolings

Upholding

'...creativity in the 21^st century has become a buzzword for pseudo-intellectuals, pseudo-entrepreneurs, and pseudo-artists who like to label themselves as “creative types” even though their level of commitment to their craft and their willingness to break from the herd is flimsy. TED and similar knowledge-hungry websites might be making it worse by attracting these individuals who, if it weren’t for the easy-to-digest science, wouldn’t care about their elusive creative genius. Or perhaps it is the Internet in general, where someone publishes an article about the “secrets to creativity” every hour.'

Contrapúnct

" — Anii nu sunt rotirile pământului după soare, anii sunt după ştirea trecerii timpului. Pe atunci, cred că aveam vârsta de o secundă. Când setea ţine loc însetatului, setei îi e sete de însetat.
— Când ai împlinit un an?
— La toamnă
— Ce faci între vârste?
—Ca şi cronicarul, zic: „Aicea, între vârste, şezum şi plânsem“. Dar asta numai dacă ar fi să fim ca şi cronicarul.
— Dar asemenea cui eşti?
— Păi a spus-o în numele nostru Eminescu: „Eu rămân, ce-am fost, romantic“. Deci, noi nu suntem ca Eminescu, ci ca şi romantismul."

Brain-computer metaphor

'Or not, this is a problem:

Whether this is a noble mind suffer

Outrageous slings and arrows of Fortune

Or take up arms against a sea of ​​troubles,

And opposing the closure, after they die, to sleep

A sleep to say we end'

'To be, or not to be- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep-
No more; and by a sleep to say we end'

Inepțía

'Când se vădeşte că visul utopic tot nu se realizează, că decimarea rituală nu a servit la nimic, observăm o alunecare de la utopie la simpla conservare a puterii. Duşmanul obiectiv fiind deja exterminat, trebuie vegheat să nu se reconstituie sau chiar să se ridice din rândurile partidului. Este momentul unei a doua terori, care pare absurdă pentru că nu corespunde unei rezistenţe sociale şi politice şi vizează un control absolut al tuturor oamenilor şi al tuturor gândurilor. Teama devine atunci universală, se răspândeşte până şi în partid, fiecare membru al său simţindu-se ameninţat. Toată lumea denunţă pe toată lumea, toată lumea trădează în serie. Urmează al treilea stadiu,

wishful thinking

'It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they Always purr. `If them would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any rule of that sort,' she had said, `so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?' On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossible to guess whether it meant `yes' or `no.' So Alice hunted among the chessmen on the table till she had found the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on the hearth-rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at each other. "Now, Kitty!' she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly. `Confess that was what you turned into!' (`But it wouldn't look at it,' she said, when she was explaining the thing afterwards to her sister: `it turned away its head, and pretended not to see it: but it looked a little ashamed of itself, so I think it must have been the Red Queen.')

Restabilirea stabilirii

Les rides d’une nation sont aussi visibles que celles d’un individu. 

(La tentation d’exister)

Ongoing globalization

'The knowledge we deal with today is the result of history, of course. It is, more precisely, also the result of a historical superposition of globalization processes in which second-order knowledge, in particular in the form of images of knowledge shaping its societal role, has continued to accumulate in such a way that later layers interfered with earlier ones, without, however, eradicating them completely. Considering that bodies and images of knowledge are intertwined in a virtually endless historical chain of processes of reflection, local universalism has thus to be replaced by a global contextualism as a perspective from which to understand the globalization of knowledge in history.'