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La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
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Anatole France
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This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.
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Todor Bombov (Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face (A New World Order))
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As he passes Harper du Pont, he pulls something from his pocket, walks right up to her, and chops her ponytail off at the base.
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C.M. Stunich (Bad, Bad Bluebloods (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #2))
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America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again.
Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.
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Bill Bryson (At Home: A Short History of Private Life)
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I've never understood America,"said the king.
"Neither do we, sir. You might say we have two governments, kind of overlapping. First we have the elected government. It's Democratic or Republican, doesn't make much difference, and then there's corporation government."
"They get along together, these governments?"
"Sometimes," said Tod. "I don't understand it myself. You see, the elected government pretends to be democratic, and actually it is autocratic. The corporation governments pretend to be autocratic and they're all the time accusing the others of socialism. They hate socialism."
"So I have heard," said Pippin.
"Well, here's the funny thing, sir. You take a big corporation in America, say like General Motors or Du Pont or U.S. Steel. The thing they're most afraid of is socialism, and at the same time they themselves are socialist states."
The king sat bolt upright. "Please?" he said.
"Well, just look at it, sir. They've got medical care for employees and their families and accident insurance and retirement pensions, paid vacations -- even vacation places -- and they're beginning to get guaranteed pay over the year. The employees have representation in pretty nearly everything, even the color they paint the factories. As a matter of fact, they've got socialism that makes the USSR look silly. Our corporations make the U.S. Government seem like an absolute monarchy. Why, if the U.S. government tried to do one-tenth of what General Motors does, General Motors would go into armed revolt. It's what you might call a paradox sir.
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John Steinbeck (The Short Reign of Pippin IV)
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To be successful in an area, you have to respect the people who are successful in that area, or you are disrespecting the very thing that you want to become.
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Mark Schultz (Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold)
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Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues, et de voler du pain.
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Anatole France (Le Lys rouge suivi de Le Jardin d'Épicure)
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What happened?
It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about the nature of civilisation.
It shows that however complex and solid it seems, it is actually quite fragile. It can be destroyed.
What are its enemies?
Well, first of all fear — fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees or even planning next year’s crops. And fear of the supernatural, which means that you daren’t question anything or change anything.
The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed self-confidence. And then exhaustion, the feeling of hopelessness which can overtake people even with a high degree of material prosperity.
There is a poem by the modern Greek poet, Cavafy, in which he imagines the people of an antique town like Alexandria waiting every day for the barbarians to come and sack the city. Finally the barbarians move off somewhere else and the city is saved; but the people are disappointed — it would have been better than nothing.
Of course, civilisation requires a modicum of material prosperity—
What civilization needs:
confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, and confidence in one’s own mental powers. The way in which the stones of the Pont du Gard are laid is not only a triumph of technical skill, but shows a vigorous belief in law and discipline.
Vigour, energy, vitality: all the civilisations—or civilising epochs—have had a weight of energy behind them.
People sometimes think that civilisation consists in fine sensibilities and good conversations and all that. These can be among the agreeable results of civilisation, but they are not what make a civilisation, and a society can have these amenities and yet be dead and rigid.
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Kenneth M. Clark (Civilisation)
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Mr. DuPont mused aloud, "Why is it, Captain, that we only appreciate what we have after it is gone? If only the thought of losing something or someone would cause us to value it while it's right under our nose.
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Julie Klassen (The Painter's Daughter)
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Il y a, à Venise, trois lieux magiques et secrets : l'un dans la "rue de l'amour des amis", le deuxième près du "pont des merveilles" et le troisième dans le "sentier des marranes", près de San Geremia, dans le vieux ghetto. Quand les Vénitiens - parfois ce sont les Maltais - sont fatigués des autorités, ils vont dans ces lieux secrets et, ouvrant les portes au fond de ces cours, ils s'en vont pour toujours vers des pays merveilleux et vers d'autres histoires...
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Hugo Pratt (Fable de Venise (Corto Maltese #7))
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The Bluebloods of Burberry Prep A list by Miranda Cabot The Idols (guys): Tristan Vanderbilt (year one), Zayd Kaiser (year one), and Creed Cabot (year one) The Idols (girls): Harper du Pont (year one), Becky Platter (year one), and Gena Whitley (year four) The Inner Circle: Andrew Payson, Anna Kirkpatrick, Myron Talbot, Ebony Peterson, Gregory Van Horn, Abigail Fanning, John Hannibal, Valentina Pitt, Sai Patel, Mayleen Zhang, Jalen Donner … and, I guess, me! Plebs: everyone else, sorry. XOXO
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
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Raven Du Pont. Never in a million years did I think I’d find her walking toward me, wearing a wedding dress that looks beautiful on her, but that wasn’t designed for her. What must it feel like to walk in her sister’s shoes? Nothing about today is hers, not even the man she’s marrying.
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Catharina Maura (The Wrong Bride (The Windsors, #1))
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Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night)
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Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.
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Ernest Cline (Ready Player One)
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Common sense speaks clearly...if you listen
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Phil DuPont
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Sometimes, the past holds memories that were so fun and full of wonderful friendship, laughs, and music that when we think about those times...we have to smile
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Phil DuPont
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Tristețea persista, dar durerea aproape că dispăruse, ca și cum s-ar fi evaporat. Atinsese acel prag unde durerea care sfâșie nu mai e decât o melancolie plutitoare ce mai curând umbrește decât rănește.
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Claude Roy (La Traversée du pont des Arts roman (BLANCHE))
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For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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Carroll Quigley (Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time)
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The original owner of your house was a man named George Barrett. He was an engineer for DuPont, the chemical company, up in Gibbstown. He had a wife and three daughters, and his cousin Annie came to live here in 1946, right after World War II.
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Jason Rekulak (Hidden Pictures)
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El însuși părea să-și fi luat, față de trecutul lui, distanța pe care o dă indiferența și, poate, ironia. Unele însemnări din carnetul său îl arăta sarcastic, fără rîcă și detașat de toate, cum știu să fie doar cei care într-adevăr au ajuns până departe.
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Claude Roy (La Traversée du pont des Arts roman (BLANCHE))
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Alexia remarqua que quelque chose clochait.
« On nous suit, n’est-ce pas ? »
Mme Lefoux hocha la tête.
Alexia s’arrêta au milieu du pont et jeta un coup d’œil nonchalant par-dessus son épaule en utilisant son ombrelle pour dissimuler le geste.
« S’ils veulent se cacher, ils ne devraient pas porter ces ridicules chemises de nuit blanches. Sortir en public dans une telle tenue, franchement. »
Floote corrigea sa maîtresse. « Ce sont de Saintes Tuniques de Piété et de Foi, madame.
— Des chemises de nuit », insista Alexia avec fermeté.
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Gail Carriger (Blameless (Parasol Protectorate, #3))
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Bobby Kennedy gave Cheasty a job with the committee at a salary of $5,000 a year. The FBI planted microphones and set up cameras. Cheasty notified Hoffa that he had an envelope with sensitive committee documents and wanted another cash installment in exchange for the envelope. The two men met near DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. Cheasty handed the envelope to Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa handed Cheasty $2,000 in cash. The exchange was photographed. The FBI moved in, catching Jimmy Hoffa red-handed with the documents. They arrested Jimmy Hoffa on the spot. When
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Charles Brandt ("I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa)
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For many of us, the companies we work for are an important cultural force in our lives. For instance, growing up, my dad liked to refer to himself as a DuPonter. All the pencils in our house were company-issued, embossed with phrases like Safety First, and my dad would light up every time a DuPont commercial came on television, sometimes even chiming in with the voice-over: “Better things for better living.” I think my dad only met the CEO of DuPont a handful of times, but he’d tell stories of his good judgment the way you might speak of a family war hero.
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Angela Duckworth (Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)
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Tout cette eau descendant avec son chargement de cris, de mélodies, et d'odeurs de jardins, pleine des lueurs cuivrées du ciel couchant et des ombres contorsionnées et grotesques des statues du pont Charles, apportait à Mersault la conscience douloureuse et ardente d'une solitude sans ferveur où l'amour n'avait plus de part. Et s'arrêtant devant le parfum d'eaux et de feuilles qui montait jusqu'à lui, la gorge serrée, il imaginait des larmes qui ne venaient pas. Il eût suffi d'un ami, ou des bras ouverts. Mais les larmes s'arrêtaient à la frontière du monde sans tendresse où il était plongé.
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Albert Camus (A Happy Death)
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En ce qui me concerne, je suis végétarienne à quatre-vingt-quinze pour cent. L'exception principale serait le poisson, que je mange peut-être deux fois par semaine pour varier un peu mon régime et en n'ignorant pas, d'ailleurs, que dans la mer telle que nous l'avons faite le poisson est lui aussi contaminé. Mais je n'oublie surtout pas l'agonie du poisson tiré par la ligne ou tressautant sur le pont d'une barque. Tout comme Zénon, il me déplaît de "digérer des agonies". En tout cas, le moins de volaille possible, et presque uniquement les jours où l'on offre un repas à quelqu'un ; pas de veau, pas d'agneau, pas de porc, sauf en de rares occasions un sandwich au jambon mangé au bord d'une route ; et naturellement pas de gibier, ni de bœuf, bien entendu.
- Pourquoi, bien entendu ?
- Parce que j'ai un profond sentiment d'attachement et de respect pour l'animal dont la femelle nous donne le lait et représente la fertilité de la terre. Curieusement, dès ma petite enfance, j'ai refusé de manger de la viande et on a eu la grande sagesse de ne pas m'obliger à le faire. Plus tard, vers la quinzième année, à l'âge où l'on veut "être comme tout le monde", j'ai changé d'avis ; puis, vers quarante ans, je suis revenue à mon point de vue de la sixième année.(p. 288)
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Marguerite Yourcenar (Les Yeux ouverts : Entretiens avec Matthieu Galey)
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Au fond de son âme, cependant, elle attendait un événement. Comme les matelots en détresse elle promenait sur la solitude de sa vie des yeux désespérés, cherchant au loin quelque voile blanche dans les brumes de l’horizon. Elle ne savait pas quel serait ce hasard, le vent qui le pousserait jusqu’à elle, vers quel rivage il la mènerait, s’il était chaloupe ou vaisseau à trois ponts, chargé d’angoisses ou plein de félicités jusqu’aux sabords. Mais chaque matin, à son réveil, elle l’espérait pour la journée, et elle écoutait tous les bruits, se levait en sursaut, s’étonnait qu’il ne vînt pas; puis, au coucher du soleil, toujours plus triste, désirait être au lendemain.
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Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
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Nous avons quitté la terre et sommes montés à bord ! Nous avons brisé le pont qui était derrière nous, — mieux encore, nous avons brisé la terre qui était derrière nous ! Eh bien ! petit navire, prends garde ! À tes côtés il y a l’océan : il est vrai qu’il ne mugit pas toujours, et parfois sa nappe s’étend comme de la soie et de l’or, une rêverie de bonté. Mais il viendra des heures où tu reconnaîtras qu’il est infini et qu’il n’y a rien de plus terrible que l’infini. Hélas ! pauvre oiseau, toi qui t’es senti libre, tu te heurtes maintenant aux barreaux de cette cage ! Malheur à toi, si tu es saisi du mal du pays de la terre, comme s’il y avait eu là plus de liberté, — et maintenant il n’y a plus de « terre » !
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Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
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nearly all of the astonishing productivity gains of the last century trace back to the work of a single man, Norman Borlaug, perhaps the best argument for the humanitarian virtue of America’s imperial century. Born to Iowa family farmers in 1914, he went to state school, found work at DuPont, and then, with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation, developed a new collection of high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that are now credited with saving the lives of a billion people worldwide.
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David Wallace-Wells (The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming)
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Ils se laissèrent porter en direction du nord, vers la gare de Perdido. Ils tournaient lentement, revigorés par cette présence urbaine massive, profane, en dessous d'eux, par ce lieu fécond, grouillant, tel qu'aucun de leurs semblables n'en avait jamais connu jusque là. Partout, le moindre secteur – ponts obscurs, hôtels particuliers vieux de cinq siècles, bazars tortueux, entrepôts de béton, tours, péniches d'habitation, taudis répugnants et parcs au cordeau – grouillait de nourriture. C'était une jungle dépourvue de prédateurs. Un terrain de chasse.
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China Miéville (Perdido Street Station: Tome 1)
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On partit ; Edmond fendit de nouveau cette mer azurée, premier horizon de sa jeunesse, qu'il avait revu si souvent dans les rêves de sa prison. Il laissa à sa droite la Gorgone, à sa gauche la Pianosa, et s'avança vers la patrie de Paoli et de Napoléon.
Le lendemain, en montant sur le pont, ce qu'il faisait toujours d'assez bonne heure, le patron trouva Dantès appuyé à la muraille du bâtiment et regardant avec une expression étrange un entassement de rochers granitiques que le soleil levant inondait d'une lumière rosée : c'était l'île de Monte-Cristo.
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Alexandre Dumas (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, #1 of 2))
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Certains jours, travaillant aux Mystères de messieurs, j'avais envie d'alléger la planète des neuf dixièmes de ses phallophores - qui, par leur insécurité permanente, leur incertitude d'être (Pour qui tu te prends ? phrase masculine par excellence), leur passion pour les armes, leur rivalité, leur goût du pouvoir, leurs bagarres et magouilles de toutes sortes, conduisent notre espèce droit à l'extinction, d'autres jours au contraire j'avais envie de les remercier à genoux car ils ont inventé la roue et le canoë, l'alphabet et l'appareil photo, élaboré les sciences composé les musiques écrit les livres peint les tableaux bâti les palais les églises les mosquées les ponts les barrages et les routes, travaillé sans compter, durement et modestement, déployant leur force, leur patience, leur énergie et leur savoir-faire dans les champs de mine usines ateliers bibliothèques universités et laboratoires du monde entier. Oh ! hommes merveilleux, anonymes et innombrables, souffrant et vous dévouant, jour après jour, siècle après siècle pour nous faire vivre un peu mieux, avec un peu plus de confort et de beauté et de sens... que je vous aime !
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Nancy Huston (Infrarouge)
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I have not drawn any conclusions, as yet,” says Simon. “In any case, I am less interested in her guilt or innocence, than in…”
“Than in the mechanisms at work,” says Dr. DuPont.
“That is not quite how I would put it,” says Simon.
“It is not the tune played by the musical box, but the little cogs and wheels within it, that concern you.”
“And you?” says Simon, who is beginning to find Dr. DuPont more interesting.
“Ah,” says DuPont. “For me it is not even the box, with its pretty pictures on the outside. For me, it is only the music.
The music is played by a physical object; and yet the music is not that object. As Scripture says, “The wind bloweth where it listeth.
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Margaret Atwood (Alias Grace)
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Compared to cotton, synthetic fibers require a lot less water to produce, but that’s not necessarily a good enough argument for using them, since they have other significant impacts: they are still made of oil, and their production can require a lot of energy. MIT calculated that the global impact of producing polyester alone was somewhere between 706 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or about what 185 coal-fired power plants emit in a year.2 Samit Chevli, the principal investigator for biomaterials at DuPont, the giant chemical company, has said that it will be hundreds of years before regular polyester degrades.3 Plus, while the chemicals used in production typically aren’t released to the environment, if factories don’t have treatment systems in the last phase of production, they can release antimony, an element that can be harmful to human health, as well as other toxins and heavy metals. Despite having just written a good amount about the impacts associated with the production of synthetic fibers, that’s actually not why I wanted to call attention to your yoga pants and dry-fit sweat-wicking T-shirts, which we wear out to dinner. It is hard for me to leave my fashion critique at the door, but what I actually want to say about synthetic fibers is that they are everywhere—not just in all of our clothes, but literally everywhere: rivers, lakes, oceans, agricultural fields, mountaintops, glaciers. Everywhere. Synthetic fibers, actually, may be one of the most abundant, widespread, and stubborn forms of pollution that we have inadvertently created.
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Tatiana Schlossberg (Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have)
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On n’y échappe pas : il faut déconstruire tout ce qui fait la beauté de cette langue, les mots, leurs sonorités si anciennes, les références littéraires, les subtilités de l’écriture, l’étymologie et la part d’histoire singulière qu’elle contient. La langue de la traduction est toujours défaillante. Je ne peux rien contre la perte irrémédiable de ce qui me touche le plus. [...]
Il y a bien longtemps – aussi loin que mes souvenirs remontent – j’ai trouvé refuge dans la lecture et dans la littérature. Puis ce fut dans l’entre-deux de la traduction, ce pont flottant au milieu des brumes [...]. Je rêve encore à Babel, non comme un monde totalitaire où nous serions tous sommés de ressentir la même chose et de l’exprimer de manière identique, mais comme une unité profonde et sous-jacente courant sous des mots différents, sous des regards fragmentés qui mettent en lumière différents aspects du réel.
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Corinne Atlan (Le Pont flottant des rêves)
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Le tunnel qui mène au centre-ville, il a vraiment un truc. Quand il fait nuit, c'est splendide. Tout simplement splendide. D'abord, t'es de l'autre côté de la montagne et il fait sombre, et la radio est à fond. Dès que tu entres dans le tunnel, le vent disparaît d'un coup et tu plisses les yeux à cause des lumières au-dessus de toi. Quand tu t'habitues à la lumière, tu peux voir le bout du tunnel au loin, et pendant ce temps, comme les ondes passent plus, le son de la radio faiblit. Alors tu te retrouves au milieu du tunnel au loin et tout devient très calme, comme un rêve. Tu vois le bout qui se rapproche et t'as qu'une envie, c'est d'y arriver. Et finalement, juste au moment où tu penses que tu l'atteindras jamais, tu vois la sortie devant toi. Et le vent t'attend. Et tu sors du tunnel à toute vitesse, pour te retrouver sur le pont. Et elle est là. La ville. Un million de lumières et d'immeubles, et tout à l'air aussi excitant que la première fois où tu l'as vue. C'est vraiment une belle entrée en scène.
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Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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DuPont, for 130 years, had confined itself to making munitions and explosives. In the mid-1920s it then organized its first research efforts in other areas, one of them the brand-new field of polymer chemistry, which the Germans had pioneered during World War I. For several years there were no results at all. Then, in 1928, an assistant left a burner on over the weekend. On Monday morning, Wallace H. Carothers, the chemist in charge, found that the stuff in the kettle had congealed into fibers. It took another ten years before DuPont found out how to make Nylon intentionally. The point of the story is, however, that the same accident had occurred several times in the laboratories of the big German chemical companies with the same results, and much earlier. The Germans were, of course, looking for a polymerized fiber—and they could have had it, along with world leadership in the chemical industry, ten years before DuPont had Nylon. But because they had not planned the experiment, they dismissed its results, poured out the accidentally produced fibers, and started all over again.
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Peter F. Drucker (Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
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Overtaken by demographic transformation and two generations of socio-geographic mobility, France’s once-seamless history seemed set to disappear from national memory altogether.
The anxiety of loss had two effects. One was an increase in the range of the official patrimoine, the publicly espoused body of monuments and artifacts stamped ‘heritage’ by the authority of the state. In 1988, at the behest of Mitterrand’s Culture Minister Jack Lang, the list of officially protected items in the patrimoine culturel of “France—previously restricted to UNESCO-style heirlooms such as the Pont du Gard near Nîmes, or Philip the Bold’s ramparts at Aigues-Mortes—was dramatically enlarged.
It is revealing of the approach taken by Lang and his successors that among France’s new ‘heritage sites’ was the crumbling façade of the Hôtel du Nord on Paris’s Quai de Jemappes: an avowedly nostalgic homage to Marcel Carné’s 1938 film classic of that name. But Carné shot that movie entirely in a studio. So the preservation of a building (or the façade of a building) which never even appeared in the film could be seen—according to taste—either as a subtle French exercise in post-modern irony, or else as symptomatic of the unavoidably bogus nature of any memory when subjected thus to official taxidermy.
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Tony Judt (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945)
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banquet oifert à un député par ses électeurs reconnaissants. La cheminée est ornée d’une pendule d’un goût atrocement troubadour, représentant le templier Bois-Guilbert enlevant une Rébecca dorée sur un cheval argenté. A droite et à gauche de cette odieuse horloge sont placés deux flambeaux de plaqué sous un globe. Ces magnificences sont l’objet de la secrète envie de plus d’une ménagère de Pont-de-Arche, et la servante elle-même ne les essuie qu’en tremblant. Je ne parle pas de quelques caniches en verre filé, d’un petit saint Jean en pâte de sucre, d’un Napoléon en chocolat, d’un cabaret chargé de porcelaines communes et pompeusement installé sur une table ronde, de gravures représentant les Adieux de Fontainebleau, Souvenirs et regrets, la Famille du marin, les Petits Braconniers et autres vulgarités du même genre. — Concevez-vous rien de pareil ? Je n’ai jamais su comprendre, pour ma part, cet amour du commun et du laid. Je conçois que tout le monde n’ait pas pour logement des Alhambras, des Louvres ou des Parthénons ; mais il est toujours si facile de ne pas avoir de pendule ! de laisser les murailles nues, et de se priver de lithographies de Maurin ou d’aquatintes de Jazet ! Les gens qui remplissaient ce salon me semblaient, à force de vulgarité, les plus étranges du monde ; ils avaient des façons de parler incroyables, et s’exprimaient en style fleuri, comme feu Prudhomme, élève de Brard et Saint-Omer. Leurs têtes, épanouies sur leurs cravates blanches, et leurs cols de chemise gigantesques faisaient penser à certains produits de la famille des cucurbitacés. Quelques hommes ressemblent à des animaux, au lion, au cheval, à l’âne ; ceux-ci, tout bien considéré, avaient l’air encore plus végétal que bestial. Des femmes, je n’en dirai rien, m’étant promis de ne jamais tourner en ridicule ce sexe charmant. Au milieu de ces légumes humains, Louise faisait l’effet d’une rose dans un carré de choux. Elle portait une simple robe blanche serrée à la taille par un ruban bleu ; ses cheveux, séparés en bandeaux, encadraient harmonieusement son front pur. Une grosse natte se tordait derrière sa nuque, couverte de cheveux follets et d’un duvet de pêche. Une quakeresse n’aurait rien trouvé à redire à cette mise, qui faisait paraître d’un grotesque et d’un ridicule achevés les harnais et les plumets de corbillard. des autres femmes ; il était impossible d’être de meilleur goût. J’avais peur que mon infante ne profitât de la circonstance pour déployer quelque toilette excessive et prétentieuse, achetée d’occasion. Cette pauvre robe de mousseline qui n’a jamais vu l’Inde, et qu’elle a probablement faite elle-même, m’a touché et séduit ; je ne tiens pas à la parure. J’ai eu pour maîtresse une gitana grenadine qui n’avait pour tout vêtement que des pantoufles bleues et un collier de grains d’ambre ; mais rien ne me contrarie comme un fourreau mal taillé et d’une couleur hostile. Les dandies bourgeois préférant de
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Théophile Gautier (La Croix de Berny: Roman steeple-chase (French Edition))
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The Numbers Value of the property that Nixon claimed in 1972 was stolen each year by heroin addicts: $2 billion . . . claimed by South Dakota senator George McGovern: $4.4 billion . . . claimed by Nixon administration drug treatment expert Robert DuPont: $6.3 billion . . . claimed by Illinois senator Charles Percy: $10 billion–$15 billion . . . claimed by a White House briefing book on drug abuse distributed to the press: $18 billion Total value of all reported stolen property in the United States in 1972: $1.2 billion Number of burglaries committed by heroin addicts each year, per Nixon administration claims: 365 million Total number of burglaries committed in the United States in 1971: 1.8 million
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Radley Balko (Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces)
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Welles rated contrabands “no higher than boys” despite the fact that many of them were over the age of eighteen. It was the lowest rating onboard ship, and the majority of duties, at least in the beginning, involved the most innocuous and frequently the dirtiest and most dangerous work, such as assisting the coal heavers and firemen in the engine room. The rating of “boy” conveniently stigmatized African Americans and highlighted their low social standing in 1860s America. But it was a start. Repair and supply facilities on land employed a large percentage of these contraband boys: “Everybody wants contrabands. . . . I always say yes, if you can find them; plenty ashore is the answer.”16 So wrote Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont to his wife regarding recruitment of contrabands. Du Pont's capture of the harbor at Port Royal, South Carolina, in November 1861 enabled him to make Port Royal the homeport of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, where he would soon employ close to a thousand contrabands onshore. Capture of the nearby Sea Islands induced families to seek sanctuary within
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Peter Kurtz (Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865)
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Walt flew into the state by private jet many times in the early 1960s. The trips to scout land were kept secret to avoid the inevitable escalation in land prices were the overall plan to become known. A clandestine operation, using phony company names, moved to acquire the land. But Orlando was not the first choice. At one point, Disney found a huge tract of gorgeous land in Florida's panhandle, along the Gulf coast. The Saint Joe Paper Company, a large timber and paper milling company founded in the 1930s by a du Pont air, owned it. When Disney himself approached the company's patrician chairman, Edward Balll, about buying the land, Ball sniffed, A condition operation, using phony company names, move to acquired the land. But Orlando was not the first choice. At one point, Disney found a huge tract of Korgis land in Florida Panhandle, I'm on the golf coast. The Saint Joe paper company, a large timber and paper milling Company found it in the 1930s by a Dupont air, owned it. When do you see himself approach the companies patrician chairman, Edward bowl, about buying the land, Ball sniffed, "We don't deal with carnival people.
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Douglas Frantz (Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town)
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FEBRUARY 13 – THE DANGER OF PLAYING
In the year 2008, Miguel Lopez Rocha, who was fooling around on the outskirts of the Mexican city of Guadalajara, slipped and fell into the Santiago River.
Miguel was eight years old.
He did not drown.
He was poisoned.
The river contained arsenic, sulfuric acid, mercury, chromium, lead and furans, dumped into its waters by Aventis, Bayer, Nestle, IBM, DuPont, Xerox, United Plastics, Celanese, and other countries that prohibit such largesse.
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Eduardo Galeano (Los hijos de los días)
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En résumé, la société toute entière repose sur l’industrie. Celle-ci est à elle seule garantie de son existence, la source unique de toutes les richesses. La classe des producteurs - paysans, artisans, ouvriers, entrepreneurs - est la classe fondamentale, la classe nourricière de la société, celle sans laquelle aucune autre ne peut subsister. Dans cette optique, la politique telle que nous la concevons devrait n’être que la science de la production, c’est-à-dire la science qui pour objet d’instaurer l’ordre le plus favorable à tous les genres de production. Or nous vivons actuellement dans un monde renversé : la nation a admis pour principe fondamental que les pauvres doivent être généreux à l’égard des riches, et l’art de gouverner est réduit à donner aux frelons la plus forte portion du miel prélevé sur les abeilles. […] Les frelons sont les oisifs. […] Ceux qui piquent et font du mal sans apporter aucun bienfait : les rentiers, les propriétaires fonciers, les boursicoteurs, les politiciens, les nobles de Cour, les profiteurs d’héritages, les militaires de salon, les prêtres qui s’enrichissent au détriment des paroisses. Les abeilles produisent le bon miel dont tout le monde a besoin : le pain, l’acier, le charbon, les routes et les ponts, et toutes ces merveilles scientifiques et techniques sans lesquelles nous vivrions encore au Moyen-Âge. Or les frelons pillent les abeilles sans vergogne, cela est démontré chaque jour.
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Jean-Marc Ligny (La Dame Blanche)
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I typed the winery address into the GPS and then proceeded to pull out of the rental company driveway. I screeched and slammed on the brakes every four feet until I got out onto the street. There was going to be a learning curve. The GPS lady successfully got me over the Golden Gate, but I didn’t get to enjoy one minute of it. Paranoid that I was going to hit a pedestrian or a cyclist or launch myself off the massive bridge, I couldn’t take my eyes off of the car in front of me. Once I was out of the city, I spotted a Wendy’s and pulled off the highway. GPS lady started getting frantic.
“Recalculating. Head North on DuPont for 1.3 miles.”
I did a quick U-turn to get to the other side of the freeway and into the loving arms of a chocolate frosty.
“Recalculating.” Shit. Shut up, lady. I was frantically hitting buttons until I was able to finally silence her. I made a right turn and then another turn immediately into the Wendy’s parking lot and into the drive-thru line. I glanced at the clock. It was three forty. I still had time. I pulled up to the speaker and shouted, “I’ll take a regular French fry and a large chocolate frosty.”
Just then, I heard a very loud, abbreviated siren sound. Whoop.
I looked into my rearview mirror and spotted the source. It was a police officer on a motorcycle. What’s he doing? I sat there waiting for the Wendy’s speaker to confirm my order, and then again, Whoop.
“Ma’am, please pull out of the drive-thru and off to the side.” What’s going on?
I quickly rolled the window all the way down, stuck my head out, and peered around until the policeman was in my view. “Are you talking to me?”
To my absolute horror, he used the speaker again. “Yes, ma’am, I am talking to you. Please pull out of the drive-thru.” Holy shit, I’m being pulled over in a Wendy’s drive-thru.
“Excuse me, Wendy’s people? You need to scratch that last order.”
A few seconds went by and then a young man’s voice came over the speaker. “Yeah, we figured that,” he said before bursting into laughter and cutting the speaker off.
The policeman was very friendly and seemed to find a little humor in the situation as well. Apparently I had made an illegal right turn at a red light just before I pulled into the parking lot. After completely and utterly humiliating me, he let me off with a warning, which was nice, but I still didn’t have a frosty.
Pulling my old Chicago Cubs cap from my bag, I decided that nothing was going to get in the way of my beloved frosty. Going incognito, I made my way through the door. Apparently the cap was not enough because the Justin Timberlake–looking fellow behind the counter could not contain himself.
“Hi,” I said.
“Hi, what can I get you?” he said, and then he clapped his hand over his mouth, struggling to hold back a huge amount of laughter and making gagging noises in the back of his throat in the process.
“Can I get an extra-large chocolate frosty please, and make it snappy.”
“Do you still want the fries with that?” There was more laughter and then I heard laughter from the back as well.
“No, thank you.” I paid, grabbed my cup, and hightailed it out of there.
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Renee Carlino (Nowhere but Here)
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According to a 1936 report from Ambassador William Dodd to President Roosevelt, a half-dozen key U.S. companies—International Harvester, Ford, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and du Pont—had become deeply involved in German weapons production, in part because of difficulties in repatriating profits from more conventional business.
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Christopher Simpson (The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Forbidden Bookshelf))
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We pay a very high emotional price for hate, love and forgiveness are always free
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Phil DuPont
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If your ever having a bad day, sit and talk to a child. You'll walk away with a hundred reasons to smile
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Phil DuPont
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Plus la banque de données de l'enfant est riche, plus il pourra faire de connexions ensuite, donc assimiler de nouveaux savoirs. À l'inverse, un enfant peu stimulé, pas très curieux de nature, va se constituer une très petite banque de données et aura du mal à faire des ponts entre un nouvel apprentissage et son matériau personnel de base. […]
L'enfant petit doit vivre des expérimentations qui vont lui permettre, des années plus tard, de passer de la pensée concrète à la pensée abstraite. En voici un exemple frappant. Le petit enfant aime jouer avec de la pâte à modeler. Vers 4-6 ans, il découvre un concept essentiel sans le savoir : la conservation de la quantité. C'est un test qui est fait chez l'orthophoniste pour un enfant en difficulté mathématique. Il joue avec sa pâte à modeler. Elle est en boule ; puis on lui propose de l'étaler et d'en faire un long serpentin. Si on lui demande : "Est-ce que tu as autant de pâte à modeler que tout à l'heure ?", il peut répondre par l'affirmative. Mais certains enfants n'imaginent pas que la même quantité puisse changer de forme. Donc, il répondent : "Pas du tout, là, il y en a beaucoup plus. Tu ne vois pas comment c'est long ?" Tant que l'enfant n'a pas compris ce concept de conservation de la quantité (ou du nombre), il ne peut pas faire des conversions ; il ne peut pas concevoir que des centimètres deviennent des mètres, et qu'une même quantité puisse s'appeler de différentes façons. Arrivé à l'âge des opérations concrètes, comme dirait Jean Piaget, il bute sur des concepts qu'il ne comprend pas, parce que le "terrain" n'a pas été préparé en lui pour qu'il les intègre. (p. 74-75)
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Isabelle Peloux (L'école du Colibri: La pédagogie de la coopération (Domaine du possible) (French Edition))
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Certaines personnes appellent des structures telles que les pyramides égyptiennes des "ruines anciennes", mais nous les appelons des" ponts parfaits "où nous pouvons atteindre et toucher les merveilleux maîtres du passé !
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Mehmet Murat ildan
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General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
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Ralph Nader Congress Project (Corporate Power in America)
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To be fair, later, when I read through the scientific literature, I realized this is not a failing of DuPont’s. It seems to be standard for scientists in this field, even the very best. They overwhelmingly focus on biochemistry and the brain. The questions Bruce and Gabor look at—how people use drugs out here on the streets—are ignored. Nobody, I kept being told, wants to fund studies into that. Why would this be? Professor Carl Hart at Columbia University is one of the leading experts in the world on how drugs affect the brain. He tells me that when you explain these facts to the scientists who have built their careers on the simplistic old ideas about drugs, they effectively say to you: “Look, man—this is my position. Leave me alone.” This is what they know. This is what they have built their careers on. If you offer ideas that threaten to eclipse theirs—they just ignore you. I ask Professor Hart: Can our central idea about drugs really be as hollow as that? “Can it be as hollow? I think you have discovered—it is as hollow as that . . . Look at the evidence. It’s hollow . . . It’s smoke and mirrors.” But why, then, do these ideas persist? Why haven’t the scientists with the better and more accurate ideas eclipsed these old theories? Hart tells me bluntly: Almost all the funding for research into illegal drugs is provided by governments waging the drug war—and they only commission research that reinforces the ideas we already have about drugs. All these different theories, with their radical implications—why would governments want to fund those?
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Johann Hari (Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs)
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It's yesterdays mistakes realized, that will make today one the greatest of our lives" - Phil DuPont
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Phil DuPont
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If we ever stop dreaming of a better tomorrow, then we are surely destined to fade into yesterday
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Phil DuPont
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They say Time heals all wounds....I say Family, Friends and Love does
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Phil DuPont
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He bore his friends no animus for their innocence, but he hated the Krupps and DuPonts of the world and the politicians who became teary-eyed and saccharine as they waved the flag and sent others to die in the wars they caused.
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James Lee Burke (Another Kind of Eden (Holland Family Saga, #3))
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For an illustration of business drift, rational and opportunistic business drift, take the following. Coca-Cola began as a pharmaceutical product. Tiffany & Co., the fancy jewelry store company, started life as a stationery store. The last two examples are close, perhaps, but consider next: Raytheon, which made the first missile guidance system, was a refrigerator maker (one of the founders was no other than Vannevar Bush, who conceived the teleological linear model of science we saw earlier; go figure). Now, worse: Nokia, who used to be the top mobile phone maker, began as a paper mill (at some stage they were into rubber shoes). DuPont, now famous for Teflon nonstick cooking pans, Corian countertops, and the durable fabric Kevlar, actually started out as an explosives company. Avon, the cosmetics company, started out in door-to-door book sales. And, the strangest of all, Oneida Silversmiths was a community religious cult but for regulatory reasons they needed to use as cover a joint stock company.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (Incerto, #4))
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The standard fiber of world history, America's traditional crop, hemp, could provide our textiles and paper and be the premier source for cellulose. The war industries—DuPont, Allied Chemical, Monsanto, etc.,—are protected from competition by the marijuana laws. They make war on the natural cycle and the common farmer.
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Jack Herer (The Emperor Wears No Clothes: A History of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana)
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C’est un samedi semblable à bien d’autres, pourtant unique. Sur la capitale, le ciel est dégagé, laissant au soleil levant le soin de chauffer les façades en pierre de taille. Une brume de chaleur s’étend au-dessus de la Seine, les pêcheurs matinaux se rafraîchissent le visage avec l’eau du fleuve. Sous le pont Alexandre III, quelques chanceux moulinent leur fil avec une carpe ou une grémille suffisamment naïve pour se piquer la lèvre sur leur hameçon. Ceux-là feront la fierté de leur femme et ils s’imaginent rentrer hardiment dans leur appartement, accueillis comme de réels héros pour avoir attrapé une proie de trois cents grammes tout au plus, qui nourrirait à peine un chaton. Mais le sourire de ces hommes se contemple avec beauté, car eux aussi seront bientôt chassés, mais ils ne s’en doutent pas. L’innocence des jours heureux se dessine sur leur visage.
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Joffrey Gabriel (Deux frères (La Troisième clef) (French Edition))
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On sait ce qui fait tenir physiquement le béton : l'hydratation du ciment transforme ses phases silicatées en silicate de calcium hydraté, dont la structure assure la cohésion des granulats et la résistance du matériau. Mais qu'est-ce qui le fait tenir ontologiquement ?
Dit autrement, c'est quoi le monde du béton ?
Le ciment standardisé le plus commun, dit "Portland", a été mis au point au début du XIXe siècle. Il accompagne l'essor du capitalisme industriel. Hyper modulable, peu onéreux, facile de mise en oeuvre comme à détruire, les qualités du béton de ciment donnent depuis lors aux politiques et aménageurs une grande liberté pour configurer et reconfigurer l'espace. Et cette reconfiguration n'a pas cessé depuis que les humains s'agglomèrent dans les villes, suivant en substance les mouvements de concentration du capital.
Le béton matérialise ce rapport dans des infrastructures dédiées à l'accélération des flux de marchandises, qu'il s'agisse d'information, d'énergie, de biens manufacturés, ou de travailleurs. Frets, entrepôts de stockage, hubs de tri, transporteurs, data centers, fibre optique, plateformes "virtuelles" : les grands réseaux logistiques et informationnels synchronisent les métropoles entre elles sur la cadence du marché. Zébrant les territoires, cette couche dessine une pieuvre logistique faite de routes, ponts, tunnels connectant entrepôts, ports et aéroports. N'ayant que faire des particularités des territoires traversés, au mépris de celles et ceux qui y habitent, la logistique trace tout droit à travers bourgs, champs, zones naturelles et montagnes. Les campagnes sont reléguées aux fonctions de voies de transit d'un côté, et en ressources alimentaires et énergétiques de l'autre.
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Les soulèvements de la terre (Premières secousses)
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Only four companies—Proctor & Gamble, General Electric, AT&T, and DuPont—have survived on the Dow Jones index of the top-thirty U.S. industrial stocks since the 1960s.
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Ruchir Sharma (Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles)
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Are you saying the Vatican only sent one agent to stop the end of the world?” I said. DuPont’s face took on a look of mock shock. “Heavens, no. They sent two of us. Same as the DMA.
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Patrick Thomas (Rites Of Passage: The Department of Mystic Affairs Casefiles of Agent Karver (featuring Detective Bianca Jones): Mystic Investigators Book 6)
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learned to live totally in the present and die to the past. Realizing
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Mark Schultz (Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold)
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D.44 - Etes-vous venu par terre ou par mer ?
R.44 - En premier lieu, je suis venu par terre ; j'ai pris ensuite un bateau... (Le voyageur, entre trois routes, a choisi celle du centre, a rencontré un héron blanc (symbole d'immortalité), puis huit prêtres portant des objets rituels, évidente évocation des Huit Immortels taoïste ; il a visité le tempe de Ling-wang, traversé la montagne du Dragon Noir ; au pied de la montagne du Clou, il a trouvé un bateau - longue description de ce bateau merveilleux au 21 ponts, aux 21 cales, aux 72 coutures et aux 108 clous : l'une des cales contient du riz rouge, une autre la "Sainte Mère Kouan-yin" entourée des Frères Hong ; la cargaison est essentiellement constituée par du "bois rouge" et du "riz rouge" - )
[333 questions]
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Pierre Grison
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Fifty years later, in the 1920s, the American DuPont Company independently set up a similar unit and called it a Developmental Department. This department gathers innovative ideas from all over the company, studies them, thinks them through, analyses them. Then it proposes to top management which ones should be tackled as major innovative projects. From the beginning, it brings to bear on the innovation all the resources needed: research, development, manufacturing, marketing, finance, and so on. It is in charge until the new product or service has been on the market for a few years.
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Peter F. Drucker (Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Routledge Classics))
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Gymnasts don’t become dizzy, because they have kinesthetic body awareness, which is a fancy way of saying they know where they are at all times. Gymnastics made me so flexible that I could do the splits. It made me so strong that at one point I
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Mark Schultz (Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold)
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Labor and employment firm Fisher & Phillips LLP opened a Seattle office by poaching partner Davis Bae from labor and employment competitor Jackson Lewis PC. Mr. Bea, an immigration specialist, will lead the office, which also includes new partners Nick Beermann and Catharine Morisset and one other lawyer. Fisher & Phillips has 31 offices around the country. Sara Randazzo LAW Cadwalader Hires New Partner as It Looks to Represent Activist Investors By Liz Hoffman and David Benoit | 698 words One of America’s oldest corporate law firms is diving into the business of representing activist investors, betting that these agitators are going mainstream—and offer a lucrative business opportunity for advisers. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has hired a new partner, Richard Brand, whose biggest clients include William Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP, among other activist investors. Mr. Brand, 35 years old, advised Pershing Square on its campaign at Allergan Inc. last year and a board coup at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. in 2012. He has also defended companies against activists and has worked on mergers-and-acquisitions deals. His hiring, from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is a notable step by a major law firm to commit to representing activists, and to do so while still aiming to retain corporate clients. Founded in 1792, Cadwalader for decades has catered to big companies and banks, but going forward will also seek out work from hedge funds including Pershing Square and Sachem Head Capital Management LP, a Pershing Square spinout and another client of Mr. Brand’s. To date, few major law firms or Wall Street banks have tried to represent both corporations and activist investors, who generally take positions in companies and push for changes to drive up share prices. Most big law firms instead cater exclusively to companies, worried that lining up with activists will offend or scare off executives or create conflicts that could jeopardize future assignments. Some are dabbling in both camps. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, for example, represented Trian Fund Management LP in its recent proxy fight at DuPont Co. and also is steering Time Warner Cable Inc.’s pending sale to Charter Communications Inc. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP have done work for activist firm Third Point LLC. But most firms are more monogamous. Those on one end, most vocally Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, defend management, while a small band including Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP primarily represent activists. In embracing activist work, Cadwalader thinks it can serve both groups better, said Christopher Cox, chairman of the firm’s corporate group. “Traditional M&A and activism are becoming increasingly intertwined,” Mr. Cox said in an interview. “To be able to bring that perspective to the boardroom is a huge advantage. And when a threat does emerge, who’s better to defend a company than someone who’s seen it from the other side?” Mr. Cox said Cadwalader has been thinking about branching out into activism since late last year. The firm is also working with an activist fund launched earlier this year by Cadwalader’s former head of M&A, Jim Woolery, that hopes to take a friendlier stance toward companies. Mr. Cox also said he believes activism can be lucrative, pooh-poohing another reason some big law firms eschew such assignments—namely, that they don’t pay as well as, say, a large merger deal. “There is real money in activism today,” said Robert Jackson, a former lawyer at Wachtell and the U.S. Treasury Department who now teaches at Columbia University and who also notes that advising activists can generate regulatory work. “Law firms are businesses, and taking the stance that you’ll never, ever, ever represent an activist is a financial luxury that only a few firms have.” To be sure, the handful of law firms that work for both sides say they do so
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Anonymous
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According to most researchers who have been working intensively on the most powerful families on earth, the names are among others: Warburg, Rothschild, Rockefeller, DuPont, Russell, Onassis, Collins, Morgan, Kennedy, Hapsburg, Li, Bundy and Astor. The following families are closely interwoven with the leading families: Vanderbilt, Bauer, Whitney, Duke, Oppenheim, Grey, Sinclair, Schiff, Solvay, Oppenheimer, Sassoon, Wheeler, Todd, Clinton, Taft, Goldschmidt, Wallenberg, Guggenheim, Bush, Van Duyn and many others. For a long time both the power and money in the world has belonged to these families. Of course not everyone going by one of these names is related to such a powerful family. Many are unaware of what’s really going on in the world. Within the framework of this book, it is important to have a closer look at some of these ruling families.
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Robin de Ruiter (Worldwide Evil and Misery - The Legacy of the 13 Satanic Bloodlines)
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The ruling families are also behind the worldwide drug trade. With the help of the CIA and the British secret service MI6, they are at the head of the worldwide drug mafia and control the entire trade and sale of drugs! During a television interview, Lewis DuPont let it slip that the worldwide drug trade was in the hands of powerful families.[25] Lewis DuPont was the driving spirit behind the book Dope (Executive Intelligence Review, 1975). This book reveals the leading figures in the world-wide drug trade. The following families and persons are associated with drug trade: the Astors, the DuPonts, the Kennedy’s, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Russells and the Chinese family Li. Because of his collaboration no this book, Lewis DuPont ran into substantial trouble with his family. Owing to a government informant, he narrowly escaped kidnapping, torture and brainwashing on his father’s yacht. He couldn’t press charges against his family for this, because the elite have control over the legal system to the farthest corners of the world.[26]
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Robin de Ruiter (Worldwide Evil and Misery - The Legacy of the 13 Satanic Bloodlines)
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The idea of employing a deceptive front group to mask corporate self-interest was not original, even within the Koch family. The same ruse had been used not just by the du Pont family and others during the New Deal years but also by a group to which Fred Koch belonged in the 1950s. He was an early and active member of the Wichita-based DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom, an antilabor union group that was a forerunner of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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In the 1950s Univac made the best computers for data processing, but by the late 1960s the company was in decline. DuPont asked Cutler to improve the reliability of its aging Univac, which meant fiddling with the machine’s operating system. Until then Cutler had never even thought about operating systems. But the company’s computer experts seemed not to know much either, and he jumped in. Computer
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G. Pascal Zachary (Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft)
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Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol’s a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont’s old motto—Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from
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MariJo Moore (Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Nation Books))
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Sous un ciel infiniment pur et très haut, dans la lumière douce de la lune, la place de la Concorde paraissait immense et étrange. A cette heure, ce n’était plus un carrefour de Paris, avec son obélisque aux lignes hiératiques, la voie blanche du pont menant à un palais d’architecture grecque, la large avenue des Champs-Élysées fuyant mystérieusement sous la verdure, les terrasses désertes et les jardins silencieux des Tuileries, elle ressemblait à l’agora de quelque ville de rêve sur laquelle planait le sommeil et qui donnait une délicieuse sensation d’immobilité, d’apaisement et de repos.
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Pierre de Coulevain (Eve victorieuse)
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Son derece hafif; ancak bir o kadar güçlü olan (kevlar, çelikten 5 kata kadar daha güçlüdür) bu malzeme, özel üretim bazı mermiler haricinde pekçok mermiyi vücuda ulaşmadan durdurabilecek özelliktedir. DuPont Kimya Firması'nın kimyagerlerinden olan Stephanie Kwolek tarafından icat edilmiş ve patentlenmiştir. Kwolek, bu icadı yaptığında aslında araba tekerleklerini daha da hafifleştirecek bir proje üzerinde çalışmaktaydı ve kevları yanlışlıkla geliştirdi.
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Anonymous
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Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of one of the nation’s largest business organizations, E. I. du Pont de Nemours. In a talk at Columbia University, Mr. Greenewalt said, “. . . there are many ways in which a good job can be done—as many ways, in fact, as there are men to whom the task is given.
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David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
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A single hug can change your whole perspective
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Phil DuPont
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The goulash smells yummy," Lizzy mentioned as she headed to the
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Jorja DuPont Oliva (Chasing Butterflies in the Magical Garden)
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Sometimes, a new beginning isn't forgetting the past. it's just moving forward with all the wonderful memories that we possess as keepsakes that stay with us a lifetime.
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Phil DuPont
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I've learned two thing's in my 50+ years...Nothing is more valuable than love, and life is only truly lived if one's happy
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Phil DuPont
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We all have the ability to achieve the impossible within us, we need only to find what inspires us enough to release it.
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Phil DuPont
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Yeux mi-clos, il humait à présent dans les souffles du large l’âcreté du sel, il écoutait les vents siffler à son oreille, messagers rafraîchissants annonciateurs d’orage. Célian sentait à travers le tissu du hamac la peau réchauffée de Nyssa toujours endormie, sa longue chevelure princière apanagée de la lumière du jour.
L’agile équipage de l’Astéropée, muscles tendus, œuvrait d’un bel ensemble autour des écoutes, habitué à manœuvrer les cordages et les voiles sur les mâts protégés de plusieurs couches d’huile de lin ; mais à cet instant les marins qui prenaient leur quart étaient allongés sur le pont pour admirer le lever de soleil.
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Cyrille Mendes (Les Épieurs d'Ombre)
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Dow Chemical has experimented with this concept in Europe, and DuPont is taking up this idea vigorously.
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William McDonough (Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things)
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The number of genetic engineers currently working on DT traits continues to grow, but given the high regulatory costs of bringing any entirely new GM crop to the market, the first commercialized version of an engineered DT crop will almost certainly come from one of the three big biotechnology companies now in pursuit of this objective in the United States: Syngenta, DuPont/Pioneer, and Monsanto.
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Robert Paarlberg (Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa)
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Finally, with a last glance around the store, I pushed out the door, which had a quaint old-time bell on an armature. I looked around and headed into a coffee shop nearby. DuPont Circle survives on chic and Café Cafe had that aplenty. The accent mark was a clue, as was the $25/LB. sign in one bin of dark beans. I ordered a black filtered Colombian, the cheapest thing on a menu full of exotic concoctions, none of which were to my mind coffee, tasty though they might be. I
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Jeffery Deaver (Edge)
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Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer have grown into global seed giants, now controlling 45 percent of all the seed sold in the world. Short of going completely organic and dropping out of growing commodity grains, how is a farmer supposed to avoid raising corn and soybeans that have been genetically modified to withstand Roundup?
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Ted Genoways (This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm)
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The crash program for building the “super” dwarfed even the Manhattan Project. The AEC nearly tripled in size, growing from a handful of sites and 55,000 employees to 142,000 employees spread across more than a score of sites. It would devour nearly 7 percent of the nation’s entire electrical output, and, according to historian Richard Rhodes, exceed in capital investment the combined market capitalization of Bethlehem Steel, U.S. Steel, Alcoa, DuPont, Goodyear, and General Motors.
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Garrett M. Graff (Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die)
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Face à la montée des couches populaires en 1985–1986, la classe dominante avait renoncé à la maîtrise directe de l’appareil politico-administratif. Elle se contente, dans la plupart des cas, d’inspirer et de piloter à distance la politique économique et monétaire. Exemples ? Le long discours-programme rédigé en partie par le secteur privé et lu par le général-président Henry Namphy en mars-avril 1986. En 1991–1992, à la suite de l’embargo imposé pour ramener Aristide au pouvoir, elle abandonnait ses projets d’industrialisation. Elle se concentrait sur la recherche du profit, laissant aux couches moyennes la triste et ingrate besogne de la gestion de la misère du peuple et de la répression. Il faut vraiment que ses intérêts paraissent en grand danger pour qu’elle se résigne à « aller au charbon », comme lorsqu’il fut nécessaire de mobiliser l’Association des Industries d’Haïti afin d’abattre Jean-Claude Duvalier, à la fin de janvier 1986, quand celui-ci avait épuisé sa durée de vie politique utile. Ce scénario rappelle l’apologue du chien hollandais que conte Chateaubriand dans ses Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe : « Quand les Hollandais essuient un coup de vent en haute mer, ils se retirent dans l’intérieur du navire, ferment les écoutilles et boivent du punch, laissant un chien sur le pont pour aboyer à la tempête; le danger passé, on renvoie Fidèle à sa niche au fond de la cale, et le capitaine revient jouir du beau temps sur le gaillard. » Voilà ce qui pourrait fort bien s’appliquer tant à Jean-Claude Duvalier qu’à Henry Namphy, à cette différence près que la bourgeoisie haïtienne, au lieu de les renvoyer à la cale, les a simplement basculés par-dessus bord.
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Michel Soukar (Radiographie de la «bourgeoisie haïtienne» suivie de : Un nouveau rôle pour les «élites haïtiennes» au 21e siècle (French Edition))
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L’important, pour cette commande, c’était le papier. Cette lettre avait pour objectif de couper les ponts. Elle devait donc être rédigée sur du papier solide, qui ne se déchirerait pas facilement. Pour exprimer la détermination de Madame X, je voulais du papier robuste – en exagérant, quelque chose qui survivrait même à un incendie.
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Ito Ogawa (La Papeterie Tsubaki)
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The foundation of all drug abuse prevention is knowledge.
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Robert DuPont
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That’s what you want?” I say. “A competition?” “It seems the most fair way to resolve our conflict,” Du Pont says, dreamily. “Tomorrow morning, at 7:00 am, I’m going to release the beautiful Simone into the wild. I’m going to hunt her like a deer. And I’m going to put a bullet in her heart. I’ve told you the time, and I’ll text you the place. You’ll have your chance to try to stop me. We’ll see whose bullet finds its mark first.
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Sophie Lark (Bloody Heart (Brutal Birthright, #4))
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- On parle tant du premier amour, hein Marco ? On ment comme pour tout le reste.
- C'est ainsi, Modesta, moi non plus je n'aurais jamais imaginé, et malheureusement il faut arriver à notre âge pour le savoir. Tu as vu aujourd'hui sur le pont comme ces jeunes nous regardaient ? J'ai presque eu la tentation de le leur dire, mais ils ne m'auraient pas cru.
Non, on ne peut communiquer à personne cette plénitude de joie que donne l'excitation vitale de défier le temps à deux, d'être partenaire dans l'art de le dilater, en le vivant le plus intensément possible avant que ne sonne l'heure de la dernière aventure.
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Goliarda Sapienza (L'arte della gioia)
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When you push the boundaries, a lot of it is just probing. It has to be inefficient,” Casadevall told me. “What’s gone totally is that time to talk and synthesize. People grab lunch and bring it into their offices. They feel lunch is inefficient, but often that’s the best time to bounce ideas and make connections.” When engineer Bill Gore left DuPont to form the company that invented Gore-Tex, he fashioned it after his observation that companies do their most impactful creative work in a crisis, because the disciplinary boundaries fly out the window. “Communication really happens in the carpool,” he once said. He made sure that “dabble time” was a cultural staple.
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David Epstein (Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World)
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Michael Grayum - An Expert In Public Administration
Michael Grayum is an expert in public administration and has served as an experienced Public Affairs Director. He was mayor of DuPont, Washington for four years and attended Pacific Lutheran University where he received his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He continued his education at University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, where he earned a master’s degree in public administration.
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Michael Grayum
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26 avril (1996). {Les lieux, les dates et les personnages évoqués dans les pages qui suivent sont aussi authentiques que possible.} Les souvenirs sont encore là, les impressions plutôt (les chiens la nuit, les trottoirs et la chaussée crevée après l'hiver, les sons de la langue roumaine…) qui ne sont pas encore des souvenirs, mais semblent disponibles, mobilisées, présentes. Ce n'est pas que je me souviens : je sais comment faire pour descendre au rez-de-chaussée après le réveil, traverser le terrain qui sépare la Casa de Oaspeți [la Maison d'hôtes de l'Université] de la rue, entre les voitures abandonnées (un car allemand immobilisé là sans doute depuis longtemps) ou en cours de réparation sur un pont rudimentaire, passer devant l'Academia de Arte devant laquelle de bon matin sont déjà rassemblés des étudiants en musique, à côté du robinet vissé à un simple tuyau planté dans le sol, et qui coule toujours (les chiens viennent périodiquement y boire). Tout cela m'est présent. Mais je sens aussi comment ces diverses sensations s'écartent les unes des autres, se désolidarisent déjà : certaines prennent de l'importance aux dépens des autres, forment de petits groupes, s'organisent en "souvenirs" aptes à entrer dans la mémoire profonde.
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Pierre Pachet (Conversation à Jassy)
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In the upcoming months I would learn more about DPG’s history, but early on I learned about one derivatives trade that I think exemplifies the group’s business. This particular trade, and its acronym, were among the group’s most infamous early inventions, although it still is popular among certain investors. The trade is called PERLS. PERLS stands for Principal Exchange Rate Linked Security, so named because the trade’s principal repayment is linked to various foreign exchange rates, such as British pounds or German marks. PERLS look like bonds and smell like bonds. In fact, they are bonds—an extremely odd type of bond, however, because they behave like leveraged bets on foreign exchange rates. They are issued by reputable companies (DuPont, General Electric Credit) and U.S. government agencies (Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae), but instead of promising to repay the investor’s principal at maturity, the issuers promise to repay the principal amount multiplied by some formula linked to various foreign currencies. For example, if you paid $100 for a normal bond, you would expect to receive interest and to be repaid $100 at maturity, and in most cases you would be right. But if you paid $100 for PERLS and expected to receive $100 at maturity, in most cases you would be wrong. Very wrong. In fact, if you bought PERLS and expected to receive exactly your principal at maturity, you either did not understand what you were buying, or you were a fool. PERLS are a kind of bond called a structured note, which is simply a custom-designed bond. Structured notes are among the derivatives that have caused the most problems for buyers. If you own a structured note, instead of receiving a fixed coupon and principal, your coupon or principal—or both—may be adjusted by one or more complex formulas.
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Frank Partnoy (FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street)
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barbouiller /baʀbuje/ I. vtr 1. (salir) to smear (de "with") • ~ son visage/un meuble de qch | to get sth all over one's face/a piece of furniture, to smear one's face/a piece of furniture with sth • il est tout barbouillé | his face is all dirty • il est tout barbouillé de confiture | his face is all smeared with jam 2. (couvrir) to daub [surface, support] (de "with") • ~ un plafond/une porte de peinture verte | to slap green paint on a ceiling/a door, to daub a ceiling/a door with green paint • ~ un pont d'inscriptions | to daub graffiti all over a bridge 3. (peindre) • (pej) ~ des natures mortes/des paysages | to do daubs of still lives/landscapes (péj) • ~ du papier | to write drivel (péj) 4. (rendre malade) • cela barbouille l'estomac | it makes you feel queasy • être or se sentir barbouillé | to feel queasy II. vpr • (se salir) se ~ le visage/le corps de qch | to get one's face/body all covered in sth, to smear one's face/body with sth
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Synapse Développement (Oxford Hachette French - English Dictionary (French Edition))
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La mort de la prophétesse
Je vous ai laissés avec le soleil et les eaux
aux rames,
et je vous retrouve tués avec les faux
et les lames.
C’est à vous et à vous que j’ai laissé
ce jardin plein de grenades et de rosée,
pour en faucher l’herbe, pour en cueillir les fruits,
et vivre unis !
Mais à peine ai-je fermé la porte,
et mes cendres balayées, le vent les emporte.
À peine j’ai franchi le seuil, au départ,
et vous avez déchiré mon livre et mon étendard.
La cour, je ne l’avais pas encore quittée,
et quelqu’un est sorti pour s’assurer
que je n’étais pas de retour.
Un autre regardait le ciel par la bouche du four,
dans l’espace apercevant
ma cheville, sur des ponts d’argent.
Suivie par les cyclones qui me mettent en chasse,
je reviendrais par la voie des navires,
mais elle pèse sur moi, la Mer des Sargasses,
muraille que l’Océan seul peut bâtir.
(traduit du roumain par Elisabeta Isanos)
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Magda Isanos (Cantarea muntilor)
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J’attends l’an premier
J’attends l’an premier d’une autre ère,
l’an de la paix sur la terre.
On aura démoli les grands abattoirs
de l’Histoire.
Mon cœur murmure déjà : « Frère,
pardonne-moi cet héritage de haine,
et au nom de la souffrance humaine,
prends ma main, frère.
Moi aussi j'ai mordu la poussière
et j'ai pleuré.
Tous les miens morts, éteint le feu du foyer,
dans mon incendiée patrie…
Aurore étrange, le sang avait lui,
Les uns après les autres,
les horizons tombèrent
devant moi et derrière.
Je franchissais les confins,
des rivières et des monts.
Et personne n’était plus grand que les grands
soldats sans noms.
Nous nous frayions une voie
à travers les foules grises
qui se retiraient, effrayées, comme l’eau.
Les obus tuaient et creusaient
du même coup le tombeau de la mère et de l’enfant.
Et la mort, comme un revenant,
traversait les champs désertés.
Et cependant, le yacht aux ponts dorés
par le soleil du Midi,
comme un oiseau sans tache, flottait.
Le milliardaire fumait sa havane:
« Ô monde merveilleusement réglé ! »
(Un ver qui grossit dans la plaie qu’il profane,
de l’humanité toujours dans le sang…)
Frère, n’ayons plus de ressentiments
ni de rêves chauvins.
Comme moi, tu travailles de tes mains.
Tu laboures la terre. Peut-être, tu écris.
Il y a des foyers pauvres en d’autres lieux aussi.
Sur ton visage, je comprends sans mots
que tu te réveilles chaque jour très tôt,
et couches tard chaque soir.
Donne-moi ta main, sors de ton cercueil,
démolissons les historiques abattoirs,
regarde : le soleil sur le seuil…
(traduit du roumain par Elisabeta Isanos)
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Magda Isanos (Cantarea muntilor)
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À cloche-pied
tu piétines les voix
Qui les a ensevelies ?
Le vent furète dans le temps
Un pont sépare les mondes
avec le mythe du passage
(p. 64)
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Luminitza C. Tigirlas (Eau prisonnière)
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« Ravie de te revoir ! » répondit Lee avec un grand sourire, « Par contre, je dois vraiment aller me coucher. La journée a été longue. »
« Ne serait-ce pas là une façon très indélicate de m’inviter à te suivre ? » demanda-t-il, d’un air taquin. Lee lui donna un petit coup de coude et ils éclatèrent de rire. Ils se mirent debout et s’adossèrent à la barrière du pont.
« Si je voulais réellement que tu me suives, je ne chercherais pas une manière indélicate de te le faire savoir. » le provoqua Lee.
Lee était quelqu’un d’honnête. Elle n’était pas le genre de fille à passer par quatre chemins : si elle voulait quelque chose, elle le disait clairement et l’obtenait par n’importe quel moyen. Particulièrement avec lui.
« Je sais, je rigole. J’ai adoré la tête que tu as tirée. Tu sais bien que j’aime bien t’ennuyer… » gloussa-t-il en se rapprochant d’elle et en l’enlaçant à nouveau, « J’ai de nouveaux tatouages depuis la dernière fois. Tu veux les voir ? Je suis sûr que tu les adorerais. »
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Myosotis (Vices et Maléfices (Sexe, Secrets & Sortilèges #1))
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Mrs. Storrow, you come here, and Madame DuPont, you tell me you want to invest in . . . in my daughter . . . in my daughter’s business. You both are ladies of society—you believe in my daughter.” He paused, and I held my breath. “So I have to say—who am I not to believe in my daughter too?
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Jane Healey (The Saturday Evening Girls Club)