France To Unveil Air-powered Car ... In case you want to know more about this emergence of hydrogen as source of energy, here are two articles I recommend reading: The Hydrogen Balm? (by Peter Coy , BusinessWeek, September 30, 2002 Issue). ...
We seem to have forgotten that the expression “a liberal education” originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further, and say that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man. In a slaveholding country like this, there can be no such thing as a liberal education tolerated by the State; and those scholars of Austria and france who, however learned they may be, are contented under their tyrannies have received only a servile education.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
In france it is rude to let a conversation drop; in England it is rash to keep it up. No one there will blame you for silence. When you have not opened your mouth for three years, they will think: “This Frenchman is a nice quiet fellow.” Be modest. An Englishman will say, “I have a little house in the country”; when he invites you to stay with him you will discover that the little house is a place with three hundred bedrooms. If you are a world tennis-champion, say, “Yes, I don’t play too badly.” If you have crossed the Atlantic alone in a small boat, say, “I do a little sailing.”
—Andre Maurois (1885–1967)
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century france and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
—Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)