If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Learning Object
via David Allen
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Campus Life at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Rush Limbaugh is the third great progenitor of today’s political talk radio partly because he’s a host of extraordinary, once-in-a-generation talent and charisma—bright, loquacious, witty, complexly authoritative—whose show’s blend of news, entertainment, and partisan analysis became the model for legions of imitators.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at the
University of Nottingham
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Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and re-searched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.
~ Pablo Picasso
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