A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m a simple man, Hobbes.
HOBBES: You?? Yesterday you wanted a nuclear powered car that could turn into a jet with laser-guided heat-seeking missiles!
CALVIN: I’m a simple man with complex tastes.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-09-19)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4108/
Vu comment le réquisitoire était mordant, il va en prendre plein les gencives !
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#bfn #breakingfakenews #humour #meme #actualité #sarkozy #financement libyen#procès #kadhafi #réquisitoire #pnf #extravagance #petitesouris #dentiste
Impertinemment vôtre ! 
night's involution
takes green's extravagance as
supplicant, I cope
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#vss365 - #involution
#VssPoem - #cope
#DailyHaikuPrompt - green
#BlueSkyRelay - #extravagance / #supplicant
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
#KBFPhotography #DSLR #Nikon #Photography
#FotoVorschlag - 'Keine Farbe'
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@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365
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All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
[Tout luxe corrompt ou les mœurs ou le goût.]
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 16 “Des Mœurs publiques et privées; du Caractère des Nations [On Morality and the Character of Nations],” ¶ 38 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 12]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/20824…
#quote #quotes #quotation #behavior #conduct #corruption #excess #extravagance #gluttony #immorality #indulgence #luxury #morals #overindulgence #taste #wealth
Kayla’s dazzling #BatMitzvah celebration at the #HyattRegency against the glittering #Manhattan skyline was a vibrant mix of #luxury, culture, and high-energy #entertainment. With showgirl and street dancers, Transformers, a magician, and live music, this party redefined #extravagance: https://zorz.it/kaylaganza
Tobias Ungerer and I are planning to submit a theme session proposal on #Extravagance and #Creativity to #ICLC17! We invite expressions of interest with a 100-word abstract until October 20: https://extravity.github.io/
A quotation from Austen, Jane:
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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/austen-jane/71022/
A quotation from St Basil:
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Yet it is not on account of food or clothing that wealth is sought by most. Some device has been concocted by the devil, suggesting innumerable spending opportunities to the wealthy, so that they pursue unnecessary and worthless things as if they were indispensable, and no amount is sufficient for the expenditures they contrive.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70545/
A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:
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The King’s cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, ’tis made of the peoples milk.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/70020/
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx Close to Public for Tech Billionaire’s Lavish Wedding.
Accounts of the wedding events have generated hearty debate across multiple social media platforms, with many claiming that the event was needlessly extravagant.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-egypt-pyramid-great-sphinx-giza-close-tech-billionaire-wedding-1234705906/ #Tech #extravagance #weddings #Egypt
_The Evening Post_, 5 Mar 1924:
IMPORTATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —With the prospect of money becoming dearer, warnings against #extravagance have been uttered by well-known public men, and rightly so, too. But why always drag in the motor-car? It is true that recent importations have been very large, but it is far from correct to include motor vehicles… in “extravagances,” and the impression, existing in many minds and emphasised by Sir Harold Beauchamp and others that a motor-car means a “joy-riding” vehicle, is erroneous.
… statistics exist showing that over 90 per cent. of the motor vehicles in use to-day are clas[s]ified as commercial vehicles.
Now… I own a car, which I use partly for pleasure and mainly for business. I look upon it as a sound commercial proposition, and strongly object to be considered by implication as guilty of extravagance as the owner of it.
The motor-car, used intelligently, is just as much an economical necessity as, say, the telephone, or the typewriter….—l am, etc.,
PROGRESS.
3rd March.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240305.2.160
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Cars #MotorVehicles
Today's poem:
The Fountains at Villa D'Este, Tivoli
- by Cirilo Bautista
"We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand." — Lady Randolph Churchill — — — #LadyRandolphChurchill #quote #quotes #extravagance #thrift #adventure #luxury #frugality
After 10 years of bending neon and making #art interested in #excess , consumerism and parties, I finally made it out to #Vegas . I was so curious to see the #extravagance , the lights, and how the casinos and gambling machines manipulate people - and boy did I! My #casino cousin was the best guide with the budget tricks of the strip.
I now want to make a functional slot machine sculpture to bring machine #gambling into the gallery- the artists house always wins in the end!
#research #sculpture
Random photo of the day.
Happy to be part of this excellent volume in honor of Hubert Cuyckens, ed. by Hendrik De Smet, Peter Petré & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. In our paper "A quantum of salience", Jakob Neels, Tobias Ungerer & I revisit the role of #extravagance in #grammaticalization https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110753059-003/html
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