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Solution to Quote of the Day 15

2008-12-20

ugly witch I combined this quote with a quiz about its origin last Saturday:

“For certain there never were witches and warlocks in this world, but it’s just as undeniable that throughout history people believed in cheaters who had the talent of acting as sorcerers.”
(my translation)

6 people participarted, 11th, 18th and 21st century were each picked by 2. Correct is: 18th century. Last weekend’s Donaukurier, where I found it, attributed it to Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), but German WikiQuote shows as confirmed source Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer and author. Guess a DK editor might have messed up copy&paste in this quote collection…

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Quote of the Day (15)

2008-12-13

ugly witch Let’s combine the following quote with a little quiz:

“For certain there never were witches and warlocks in this world, but it’s just as undeniable that throughout history people believed in cheaters who had the talent of acting as sorcerers.”
(my translation)

 

When is this quote from?

  • 11th century (33%, 2 Votes)
  • 18th century (33%, 2 Votes)
  • 3rd millennium (33%, 2 Votes)
  • Ancient Greece (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Julius Ceasar's time (0%, 0 Votes)
  • 1960s (0%, 0 Votes)

Votes total: 6

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Solution (20 Dec): 33% were right, it’s from the 18th century. Last weekend’s Donaukurier, where I found it, attributed it to Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), but German WikiQuote shows as confirmed source Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer and author. Guess a DK editor might have messed up copy&paste in this quote collection…

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Dwelling crankily – Quote of the Day (13)

2008-07-16

cross Now the organizers of the catholic World Youth Day in Australia just wanted a happy celebration with hundreds of thousands of beautiful young people reveling in their phantasies, and then a father of two abuse victims – one of his two daughters apparently killed herself earlier this year, the other is addicted to alcohol – and brings up these old stories again. Isn’t he ashamed!?

At least that’s what the organizing bishop Anthony Fisher may have thought – seriously, unlike my sentence above:

“Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people and the hope – the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future – as we saw last night, rather than, than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds.”
(source: ABC News)

And the Papa-Ratzi apparently doesn’t want to meet with abuse victims, tight schedule and stuff. But even if he’ll meet them privately anyway: The way the catholic authorities are dealing with “these sorts of things” certainly has room for improvements…

» More at ABC News, Daily Telegraph.

Links of the Week (2008/26)

2008-06-29