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Carnival festival

Carnival festival, an article that analyses the meaning of this celebration in the Christian societies with references to the most famous world Carnival parades and the Mardi Gras day. The principle of …

Saint Valentines Day

Saint Valentines day, the lovers day, story, legends, celebrations and quotes that made Valentine’s day the most important occasion for the triumph of love. Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. …

Olympic Games Quotes

Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website. The …

The Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games, an article that illustrates how this great sporting manifestation was born, with some famous athletes stories and their achievements. Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website. The …

Christmas poems

Christmas poems for a magic holiday atmosphere, to enlighten and warm up your festive time by English-culture.com blog and Carl William Brown. Merry Christmas! Christmas tries to renew our hope, reminding us …

Thoughts and reflections on family and relatives

Thoughts and reflections on family and relatives by various authors from different eras to understand and meditate on the fundamental cell of our societies. The family is both the fundamental unit of …

Christmas thoughts

Christmas Thoughts, reflections, ideas, various opinions and some quotes on Christmas by the World of English and good will English-culture blog I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come …

Christmas food

Christmas food, an article about traditional food and dishes to create the real atmosphere of a magic Christmas time, with some quotes and historical information. I am going to church, Watson. I …

Short news about Italy

Short news about Italy, with an explanatory video on all 20 Italian Regions Stereotypes, from the book Italy in brief by Carl William Brown, a collection of quotes, news and thoughts about …

Christmas in Italy

Christmas in Italy, traditions, customs, habits, markets, an article that explains all about the Christmas period in Italy with also the famous panettone recipe. In Italy today, Christmas is a time for …

Christmas quotes

Christmas great quotes and memorable aphorisms by The world of English, that is the English-Culture.com Blog and Carl William Brown. The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate …

Christmas markets in Italy and Germany

Christmas markets in Italy and Germany, in Bolzano, Trento, Verona, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, Berlin, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Heidelberg, and many more. As Christmas gets closer, festive markets pop up all …

Christmas markets in America

Christmas markets in America, the best fantastic Christmas markets in the U.S.A. including New York, Chicago, Arlington, Washington, Elkhart Lake, Philadelphia and many more. Christmas markets have their roots in European history, …

Christmas Markets in England

Christmas markets in England, the best wonderful Christmas markets in London, and in Bath, Bristol, Chester, Winchester, York, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester The festive period is fast approaching and what better way …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown

A good aphorism should not only highlight obvious things, even if expressed in an original way, but also evoke solutions, though unpleasant for human stupidity.
Carl William Brown

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Carl William Brown

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.
Boethius