Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
~ Chris Argyris
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We have a tradition in this country of skepticism about government, of looking at it very carefully, of seeing whether our public servants can take it. That isn’t always comfortable, but, on the whole, it is good.
~ Dean Acheson
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All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games.
~ Iain Banks
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
~ Audre Lorde
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On the family tree of African American crime fiction, there is a direct genealogical link from Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones to Easy Rawlins and John Shaft, to Aaron Gunner, to Blanche White, to Marti MacAlister, to Larry Cole, to Cass Raines and Dayna Anderson.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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Israel is justified by being a sovereign state that commands the loyalty of its citizens, not by the precedents of antiquity. Ditto for the United States and every other state, whatever the nature of its origins. History is lived forward, not back, and the goal of politics and diplomacy is to make life as livable for as many people as possible, not to re-adjudicate ancient rights or wrongs.
~ Brett Stephens via The New York Times
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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A truly great pop singer, even when her subject is sex, should never take herself too seriously, and Sabrina Carpenter does not.
~ Andi Zeisler via The New York Times
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The tragedy of Steve Bannon is that when he leaves the White House, he’s known as the great manipulator, the intellectual heavy of the international populist uprising. But still he ends up in the fetal position at Donald Trump’s feet.
~ Sam Nunberg via American Rasputin
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