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The expression originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. [1] This is a pun on a mnemonic [citation needed] for the usage of the Latin word iam (formerly often written and pronounced jam), which means "at this time", but only in the future or past tense, not in the present (which is instead nunc "now").
The curse is sometimes presented as the first in a trilogy. Comedic author Terry Pratchett stated: . The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for."
Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven (John Milton, in Paradise Lost) [8] Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to ...
Barbara McNair released a version of the song as the title track of her 1969 album More Today Than Yesterday; Barbara Acklin released a version of the song on his 1970 album Someone Else's Arms; Chris Connor released a version of the song on her 1970 album Sketches; Joe Bataan released a version of the song on his 1971 album Mr. New York And ...
Not at all. The word 现世宝 originated from The Scholars (儒林外史). In this word, 现 means "appear" (verb), 世 means "world" (noun), 宝 means "preciousness" (irony), which makes the word mean "preciousness that appear in the word", who is losing his face (丢脸/丢人现眼). So the word has nothing to do with "time", since 现世 ...
Also consuetudo est altera lex (custom is another law) and consuetudo vincit communem legem (custom overrules the common law); see also: Consuetudinary. consummatum est: It is completed. The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world.
So said another way, if we were to deploy capital today, we would expect to earn spreads in that range or ROEs on a go-forward basis of somewhere between 17% and 18.5%.
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1]