Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Thomas Sowell
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An urgent desire for stability — for a fast resolution to upheaval — is in fact absolutely characteristic of any revolutionary era.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
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No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
~ Mark Twain
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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We want to build such an education system in India that youngsters do not need to go abroad to study. In fact, we would want foreign students to come here and study.
~ Narendra Modi via The Pie
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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What is the difference between a revolution and the failure of a state or the collapse of an empire? Only that in a revolution, many men, women, and children have the emotional energy to imagine a better future and put lots of creative work into trying to make it so.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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