When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Happy Vinegar Day
Wishing everyone who likes vinegar a Happy Vinegar Day.
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I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat’s main duties.
~ Dean Acheson
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Learning Object
via Yale University
Read the sign. Recycle right.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I’d opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
~ Walter Kirn
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It is only by a great effort that we rouse ourselves to act, to fight, to struggle, to be heard above the wind, to crush flowers as we walk.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Sometimes the best way to halt an escalation cycle is to demonstrate how unafraid you are of the escalation cycle.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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