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--- various_aphorisms [2013-10-07 08:58] – nik
+++ various_aphorisms [2013-10-07 09:45] – maja
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 ==== Various Aphorisms ====
+  * Weatherlore proverbs: http://www.cmos.ca/weatherlore.html
   * an "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times|Ancient Chinese curse]]": "May you live in interesting times"
   * Sailing To Byzantium by Robert Silverberg:"He that is in the dance, must needs dance on, though he do but hop".
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   * "Una bedda jurnata nun fa stati." (eng. One beautiful day doesn't make a summer.)
   * "Medicus curat, natura sanat". (eng. Doctor fixes, nature heals)
-  * "Post nubila Phoebus.: (eng. Sun comes after the rain.)
+  * "Post nubila Phoebus." (eng. Sun comes after the rain.)
   * “Svi cvjetovi budućnosti su u sjemenu sadašnjosti.” (eng. All the flowers of the future are in the seed of the present)
   * “Niko ne zna šta se iza brda valja.” (eng. No one knows what rolls behind the mountain)
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   * “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
   * Proverbs for weather forecasts in German and Croatian: http://www.crometeo.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8007
-  * "Vatra vatru ne žeže."(eng. fire does not burn fire)
+  * "Vatra vatru ne žeže." (eng. fire does not burn fire)
   * "Vjetar kad hoće da prestane onda najvećma duše." (eng. when the wind wants to stop, it blows the hardest)
   * "Zimnoj vedrini i ljetnoj oblačini nije verovati." (eng. Blue skies in the winter and clouds in the summer cannot be trusted)
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   * Much science, much sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1:18)
   * Experience is the mother of science
-  * We are the authors of our own disasters
+  * "We are the authors of our own disasters" --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
   * The past is the future of the present
   * He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.