Quote of the Day (Paul Valery, on Living in ‘Interesting Times’)
"You live in interesting times. Interesting
times are always enigmatic times that promise no rest, no prosperity or
continuity or security. Never has humanity joined so much power and so much
disarray, so much anxiety and so many playthings, so much knowledge and so much
uncertainty."— Address of French poet Paul Valery (1871-1945) to a
graduating class in 1932, quoted in Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume One: 1900-1933 (1997)
"You live in interesting times. Interesting
times are always enigmatic times that promise no rest, no prosperity or
continuity or security. Never has humanity joined so much power and so much
disarray, so much anxiety and so many playthings, so much knowledge and so much
uncertainty."— Address of French poet Paul Valery (1871-1945) to a
graduating class in 1932, quoted in Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume One: 1900-1933 (1997)
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