Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~ Peter Drucker
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There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group. A certain greedy placidity about them. Us, rather. In port we automatically become Peregrinator americanusy Die Lumpenamerikaner. The Ugly Ones.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
~ George Santayana
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The United States of America can implode under external pressure and its own grave contradictions, or it can be reimagined and repurposed.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Our poems formulate the implications of ourselves, what we feel within and dare make real (or bring action into accordance with), our fears, our hopes, our most cherished terrors.
~ Audre Lorde
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History is experimental politics.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished.
~ Claude Shannon
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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