An economy that gives most people the chance for a decent life doesn’t arise by accident or through impersonal forces.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
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The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Scale will get you strategy.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
~ Milan Kundera
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via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space or fail.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
~ Marcel Proust
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Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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