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In Dogon mythology, the fox [1] is reported to be either the trickster god of the desert, who embodies chaos [2] or a messenger for the gods. [3]There is a Tswana riddle that says that "Phokoje go tsela o dithetsenya [Only the muddy fox lives] meaning that, in a philosophical sense, 'only an active person who does not mind getting muddy gets to progress in life.'
In the original essay ("a fox who all his life sought, unsuccessfully, to be a hedgehog") FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver: Its logo is a fox, alluding to Archilochus' saying [7] Warren Buffett: William Thorndike Sigmund Freud: Peter Gay "a fox who at times affected a hedgehog's clothing" McDonald's: Tom Gara "firing multiple shots in all ...
The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master stratagem. Included in collections of Aesop's fables since the start of printing in Europe, it is number 605 in the Perry Index .
Gould's stage two is the misrepresentation of late nineteenth century's rationalism vs. religion conflict. Gould cites J.W. Draper's 1874 History of the Conflict Between Science and Religion [2] and Andrew Dickson White's 1896 A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom [3] as representative of the period. He describes ...
The history of mentalities, from the French term histoire des mentalités (lit. ' history of attitudes '), is an approach to cultural history which aims to describe and analyze the ways in which historical people thought about, interacted with, and classified the world around them, as opposed to the history of particular events, or economic trends.
Sassoon was motivated to write the work by a war incident, when a fox was loose in the trenches and one of his friends shot and killed it. However, the book draws heavily on his pre-war life, with riding and hunting being among the favourite pastimes of the author. [2] Much of the material for the novel came from Sassoon's own diaries.
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"There are no atheists in foxholes" is an aphorism used to suggest that times of extreme stress or fear can prompt belief in a higher power. [1] In the context of actual warfare, such a sudden change in belief has been called a foxhole conversion.