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On Tue, 07 Jan 14 02:33:02 UTC Thunderpussy (48) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To fight the good fight and gain no support, be undermined, or attacked for it relentlessly
- Where would you like to live?
- Among people who strive for growth of self and of others
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To eat, smoke cigars, and drink red wine with friends and family in nature after the work of the day
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Momentary weaknesses of character
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those heroes humbly born who rise to their heroism when facing temptation or death without sacrificing their humanity
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Archimedes, Ghandi, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin, Turing, da Vinci, Mozart, Galileo, Descartes
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Aung San Suu Kyi, the Tank Man (I must include men), Malala, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, Patriot Guard Riders, Connor Long, US Special Forces, LGBT organizers around the world, Wendy Davis, Rosa Parks
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- There are too few in fiction to choose well
- Your favorite painter?
- Michelangelo
- Your favorite musician?
- Mozart
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- A strong moral compass
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- A strong moral compass
- Your favorite virtue?
- Compassion
- Your favorite occupation?
- Thinking and eating....neither superior to the other but both superior to all others by far
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Archimedes
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My ability to speak, write, even communicate with just my facial expression
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Honesty
- What is your principle defect?
- My arrogance that my understanding of a situation is the only one logical
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have made no difference
- What would you like to be?
- Always growing
- What is your favorite color?
- Those of the damselflies
- What is your favorite flower?
- Most definitely her floracita
- What is your favorite bird?
- Hummingbirds
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Yasunari Kawabata among a thousand others
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Maya Angelou among a hundred others
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Those who stand up to tyranny, bigotry, hatred, oppression
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Those millions whose stories are untold and therefore lost
- What are your favorite names?
- Thunderpussy
- What is it you most dislike?
- Cruelty, stupidity, and predation
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Slave traders and fur traders, those who took and sold lives for simple greed. Plus, leaders who killed millions stupidly, Stalin, Mao, the Catholic Church mostly of the past, and Islamic militants of the present.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The selfless sacrifices of those who enter hot kill zones to retrieve fallen soldiers
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ability to inspire and lead effortlessly
- How would you like to die?
- Saving a life
- What is your present state of mind?
- At peace
- What is your motto?
- It is not the critic who counts nor the one who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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