Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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With the changes in technological complexity, especially in information technology, the leadership task has changed. Leadership in a networked organization is a fundamentally different thing from leadership in a traditional hierarchy.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
~ Peter Drucker
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Wherever the Information Age economy showers money and power onto educated urban elites, populist leaders have arisen to rally the less educated: not just Donald Trump in America but Marine Le Pen in France, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. These leaders understand that working-class people resent the know-it-all professional class, with their fancy degrees, more than they do billionaire real-estate magnates or rich entrepreneurs.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
~ David Foster Wallace
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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
~ Lewis Mumford
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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The increasing control of U.S. mass media by a mere handful of corporations has — rather counterintuitively — created a situation of extreme fragmentation, a kaleidoscope of information options.
~ David Foster Wallace
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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