Potemkin's Village

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Forgive me if I don't share your values


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 1:42 AM 1 comment:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances - Viktor E. Frankl


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 6:35 AM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Malaysian's Solution


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 11:33 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Another Malaysian Solution


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 1:48 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast - Lewis Carroll


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 12:50 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not - Niccolo Machiavelli


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 6:06 AM 1 comment:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them - Simon Wiesenthal


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 2:45 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. 2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. 3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 3:54 AM 3 comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act - George Orwell


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 3:39 AM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule - Friedrich Nietzsche


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 3:25 AM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Caption Competition. Submit your best tag line...


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 3:14 AM 2 comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Friday, June 22, 2012

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men - Frederick Douglass


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 5:00 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

The Real Deal


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 4:43 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy - Lawrence Durrell


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 4:32 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Vive le difference


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 4:19 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Don't fall for the "Sin of the False Collective". It wasn't the 'Guvmint wot dunnit". It was a group of individuals with names and addresses


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 10:56 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Honest Guv. I don't know nuffink. Ask dem uvvers


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 10:44 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime - Herbert Ward


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 10:25 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Leadership at the highest involves dealing with forces beyond one's control. What gargantuan forces would face a Premier considering the Terms of Reference for a Royal Commission


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 10:11 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind - Ayn Rand


Posted by Grigory Potyomkin at 9:35 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

International Visitors to Potemkin's Village

free counters
Free counters

About Potemkin's Village

Grigory Potyomkin
According to some historians, Grigory Potyomkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite of Catherine the Great, and who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Empress with the value of her new conquests
View my complete profile

Potemkin's Popular Posts

  • Exclusive Photo: Rudd confronts Turnbull after UN rebuff
  • Caption Competition. Submit your best tag line...
  • Post hoc ergo propter hoc
  • A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life - Oscar Wilde
  • All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible - T.E. Lawrence
  • SACK.THEM.ALL.
  • To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
  • Sorry, but we're not responsible for your poor choices
  • Argumentum ad hominem, a logical fallacy, might not always be fallacious...
  • Next Election, Remember Their Names, Remember Their Faces, Remember What They Said, Remember What They Did.

Search Potemkin's Village

Potemkin's Archive

  • Jun 2018 (1)
  • May 2018 (1)
  • Dec 2017 (12)
  • Nov 2016 (3)
  • Oct 2016 (6)
  • Sep 2016 (1)
  • Aug 2016 (4)
  • Jul 2016 (17)
  • Jun 2016 (31)
  • May 2016 (21)
  • Apr 2016 (11)
  • Mar 2016 (4)
  • Feb 2016 (3)
  • Jan 2016 (4)
  • Dec 2015 (2)
  • Nov 2015 (4)
  • Oct 2015 (11)
  • Sep 2015 (5)
  • Aug 2015 (8)
  • Jul 2015 (6)
  • Feb 2015 (5)
  • Jan 2015 (1)
  • Feb 2014 (15)
  • Dec 2013 (4)
  • Sep 2013 (4)
  • Aug 2013 (33)
  • Jul 2013 (21)
  • Jun 2013 (18)
  • May 2013 (20)
  • Apr 2013 (19)
  • Mar 2013 (11)
  • Feb 2013 (12)
  • Jan 2013 (7)
  • Dec 2012 (27)
  • Nov 2012 (4)
  • Oct 2012 (32)
  • Sep 2012 (16)
  • Aug 2012 (19)
  • Jul 2012 (11)
  • Jun 2012 (61)
  • May 2012 (28)
  • Apr 2012 (3)
  • Mar 2012 (22)
  • Feb 2012 (24)
  • Jan 2012 (27)
  • Dec 2011 (25)
  • Nov 2011 (21)
  • Oct 2011 (29)
  • Sep 2011 (98)
  • Aug 2011 (52)
  • Jul 2011 (49)
  • Jun 2011 (13)
All Rights Reserved. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.