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What we do in life echoes in eternity Courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not to step back, but stand up for one’s rights not to be humiliated or abused in any ways by the rich and powerful. Courage is to do the right thing in spite of danger and fear. To keep on even if opportunities to turn back are given. Like in the great stories. The ones where people have lots of chances of turning back — but don’t. As when Sir Nicholas Winton...

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 [embedded content]   Seems to be a universal trend. Even in Sweden we have lots of people who are offended by anything …  

Back in the 80’s yours truly had the pleasure of studying at University of Vienna. I wish I could visit it again. A wonderful town full of history and Kaffeehäuser. When not studying I used to listen to Leonard Cohen: [embedded content]

Science — a strange intoxication Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized accomplishment. And whoever lacks the capacity to put on blinders, so to speak, and to come up to the idea that the fate of his soul depends upon whether or not he makes the correct conjecture at this...

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Rom i regnet (privat)  [embedded content] Till Anna — som fick mig att överleva gymnasieåren på Linnéskolan.