The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
~ Peter Drucker
Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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To mislead a rival, deception is permissible; one may use all means against his enemies.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one’s say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt — these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression.
~ Rollo May
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As we no longer have an economic policy that is managed democratically, it should not be surprising that it produces unfair outcomes. Nor should it be surprising that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, Covid, the war in Ukraine and so-called Bidenflation, this unfairness would give rise to what Wolfgang Streeck calls “tendencies toward deglobalization” — such as those that emerged with a vengeance on November 5, 2024.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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There’s no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.
~ Henry James
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rogers
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All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. …
You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Where shall the word be found? Where will the word resound?
Not here, there is not enough silence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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