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пара слов о думе..
`У меня от Думы три впечатления: комичное, возмутительное и отвратительное. Комичное в том понимании, какое оттенял Шопенгауэр, то есть противоположное естественному, нужному. Вот как если упал человек, когда он должен идти и не падать. Делается именно то, чего не нужно делать. Комичное, потому что мне все кажется, будто эти дети играют во взрослых. Ничего нового, оригинального и интересного нет в думских прениях. Все это слышано-переслышано. Никто не выдумал и не сказал ничего своего. У депутатов все перенято с европейского, и говорят они по-перенятому, вероятно, от радости, что у них есть «кулуары», «блоки» и прочее и что можно все это выговаривать. Наша Дума напоминает мне провинциальные моды. Платья и шляпки, которые перестали носить в столице, сбываются в провинцию, и там их носят, воображая, что это модно. Наша Дума — провинциальная шляпка. Возмутительным в ней кажется то, что, по справедливым словам Спенсера, особенно справедливо для России: все парламентские люди стоят ниже среднего уровня своего общества и вместе с тем берут на себя самоуверенную задачу разрешить судьбу стомиллионного народа. Наконец, Дума отвратительна — по грубости, неправдивости выставляемых мотивов, ужасающей самоуверенности, а главное, озлобленности. Такая Дума никому не нужна.`
Как вы думаете чьи это слова и когда были сказаны?
(граф Лев Толстой, 1909 г., найди три отличия)
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So, that's what happened for that time,..
..and then, finally, I suppose things began to change. And 1993 saw a lot of changes, and I began to appreciate that changes might be happening, and somebody offered me a job in Novosibirsk. I went there and worked in a company, that company runs by a friend of mine - and, actually, it was then the busiest company in Novosibirsk. We had a great deal of fun there, a lot of deal, and, eventually, I thought, I was having so much experience running a company I might as well get my own business.
So, I established a company - well, actually, it wasn't a big business then, it was a small firm, a rather grotty office in the suburban area - not really the place to have a company when you come to change the world, but there you go.
Eventually, I converted this firm into a real big multifunctional holding. Unfortunately, shortly after it, my wife decided that she didn't really like the lifestyle that we were now living, which I barely say was surprising, because, I mean, well... I've never been the greatest, and monogamous, I believe is the word, so she left, and I was left with a company. Unfortunately...
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have you ever read this book?..
Apparently there are a lot of books which I like, but for the people with a bad memory like me the best book is obviously the book which they've completed the days before and can still keep in mind at least some short period of time.
So, during the last month I was reading two comparatively old fashioned books. First of them was "The Executioner" which was written in 1992 by one of the most notorious rebel, former prisoner, and I can even say - revolutionary, who was trying to win the presidency of Russia in 2012. He's also a very fruitful/productive/prolific writer. Since for some ethical reasons discussing this novel isn't appropriate now, I'm going to tell you about the second book. It's a product of imagination of a group of writers. I'm sure their names say nothing for you, a fortiori, I can't distinctively recall it. This book was written in 2007 in parable form – it's a kind of fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth, usually with some unusual creatures, animals etc as characters.
Well, our main character awakens to find that his dream job has become a nightmare. Overwhelmed by avalanche of information he's falling behind at work and what is more inappropriate he's neglecting his family. He noticed he's working faster and harder but getting nowhere. And what is much more frightening he noticed the very strange transformations...
Our second character overcomes his initial shock at having an unusual creature for his client...
So, this couple helps us to understand and overcome one of the most destructive troubles of contemporary world. There is a palpable/tangible frustration with the quantity and quality of information gushing through our lives. That stream of data has created a frenetic 24/7 hamster on a wheel work environment. By the way the title of this book is "The Hamster Revolution". This book helps us manage more efficiently so that we can restore our life balance and reach our fullest potential.
Now I'm sure this book could be the necessary first step in the process of mastering the time and information management. I suppose that one of the second steps on this way can be the book "Getting things done" by David Allen which I'm reading now...
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some kind of a sequel...
Now I'll try to continue my story.
So, after I'd left school, I spent a little bit of time in Irkutsk, and then in Nakhodka and Vladivostok. Not quite the way that a young business executive should live, so shortly I parted company with the more formal company I had, and the fact that there was of course full employment then - in the lately eighties, if you wanted a job, and you were half serious you could get one. So what did I do? I went and became a designer and an installator of some engineer and security systems. It was much more fun. And I worked around private offices and houses, clubs, cafés, and really enjoyed myself. I even made money - enough to live off, anyway - and lived very well...
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'You have reached the daily limit on notebook entries' - ?!!
'You have reached the daily limit on notebook entries' - it means I can say just only a couple words per day, isn't it?..
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some awesome lines
In the morning I've discovered awesome lines written by Emily Dickinson:
`If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; if I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.`
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So, to make long story short...
I was born in one of a remote village in a dale which situated between Sayan Mountains surrounding Lake Baikal. I lived in unspoiled taiga where my parents lived, and later they sent me off to Angarsk, some seventy or sixty miles away from my parents, where life was not so easy, and then, I suppose easier. Of course, it was easier because I was away from my parents, and they weren't there to tell me what to do and how to do it. And then I came home, every holiday, for four weeks or eight weeks in the summer, and went out and shot little birds, chased foxes and hares round with a shotgun. Three dogs and one rifle - and I could go anywhere. So that's how I began...
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Hi, everybody. I suppose it's not a mistake, it's a chance, isn't it?
My first note, which I made here: Hi, everybody. I suppose it's not a mistake, it's a chance, isn't it?
- Have you ever got any answer?..
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