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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 …

The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games short story, an article by English-Culture.com blog for sport lovers and students of English all over the world. Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Welcome to …

Best Christmas Songs

Best Christmas Songs with videos, lyrics, famous quotes and carols to enjoy the atmosphere of this magic festival and to practice the English language having great fun. The good and the beautiful …

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 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 …

Reflections on Women’s Day

Women’s Day and various reflections, an article that offers various texts by certainly original authors, a mix of serious reflections and cheerful humour. A woman is like a tea bag: you don’t …

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 2024 falls on Saturday, February 10th, 2024, and celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival on February 24th, 2024. Celebrations last up to 16 days, but only the first 7 …

Christmas holidays

Christmas holidays, customs, story, and traditions in Anglo speaking countries, an article that explains the origin and development of this great Christian feast, with some quotes and useful links. Christmas it seems …

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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