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“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.”
Ulysses • James Joyce“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
The Decay of Lying • Oscar Wilde“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“What are the choices that we must make if we are now to succeed, and not to fail? [...] Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial to tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. One of those choices has depended on the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they have reached crisis proportions. [...] The other crucial choice illuminated by the past involves the courage to make painful decisions about values. Which of the values that formerly served a society well can continue to be maintained under new changed circumstances? Which of these treasured values must instead be jettisoned and replaced with different approaches?”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond