Monday, March 26, 2007

A quote to remember

Olivier sent me this email:
A former french president, François Mitterand, said about François Bayrou:

"Il faut se méfier d'un adversaire comme lui, qui a réussi à vaincre son bégaiement pour atteindre un objectif..."
Translation: You need to watch our for an enemy like him who successfully fought his stuttering in order to achieve his goal.

I love this quote...

9 comments:

  1. Learn well your grammar,
    And never stammer,
    Write well and neatly,
    And sing soft sweetly,
    Drink tea, not coffee;
    Never eat toffy.
    Eat bread with butter.
    Once more don't stutter.

    -- Lewis Carroll

    How about focusing on accepting stuttering and coping with it rather than fighting it? (which to many is a vain battle to many anyway)

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  2. I would be more wary of an enemy who has successfully lived with a stutter! ;o)

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  3. Einar,

    Staying with the French, there is the fable of Lafontaine.

    Remember the fox that cant reach the grapes, and, when asked, he said: Well I dont really like grapes anyway...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine

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  4. Lol, foxes prefer chicken anyway... ;-)

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  5. Tom quoted: "Remember the fox that cant reach the grapes, and, when asked, he said: Well I dont really like grapes anyway..."

    I love it! Haha!

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  6. "vaincre" is not necessarly the right word, but F.Mitterand was not a stuterrer..

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  7. That's why I translated "vaincre" with "successfully fought against" which is a bit fuzzier as opposed to "won against"!

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