All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
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The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people’s treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
~ Iris Murdoch
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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
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More than any other mass medium, radio enjoys a captive audience — if only because so many of the listeners are driving — but in a major market there are dozens of AM stations to listen to, plus of course FM and satellite radio, and even a very seductive and successful station rarely gets more than a five or six percent audience share.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
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The British stumbled upon an unexpectedly powerful idea: Sever the symbolism of the state from the political power of the state, and bestow those two different governing roles on two different people. Power has little majesty in the British system. Prime ministers reside in an apartment over their office. People are rude to them all the time.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.
~ Alina Chan via The New York Times
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A good writer always works at the impossible.
~ John Steinbeck