Tag Archives: personality

Who was Oliver Cromwell?

Posted on April 4, 2022 by odeboyz

He was courageous, devout, resolute, principled, intelligent, eloquent, able, adaptable and dedicated, but also self-seeking, unscrupulous, dishonest, manipulative, vindictive and bloodthirsty: definitely not somebody to be simply taken at his word. Ronald Hutton The Making of Oliver Cromwell p338

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Actuary: a joke

Posted on July 8, 2014 by odeboyz

“I became an actuary because I didn’t have the personality to be an accountant.” (Chris)

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