Ronald Reagan, addressing U.N. on June 19, 1982:
I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world. … My people have sent me here today to speak for them as citizens of the world, which they truly are, for we Americans are drawn from every nationality represented in this chamber [...]
what other people think?
Perhaps, you’d be more blunt and less polite in that way that meaning gets lost. You’d be like Richard Feynman, author of “What Do You Care What Other People Think.”
Maybe you’d be more like Margaret and Helen.
I would imagine selective memory works well for Rush (Limbaugh, who else?) considering he selects [...]
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
The moral high ground is hard to hold and we let it slip. I hope that Sy Hersh’s discovery assertion of [...]
John Maxwell writes about Failing Forward and it becomes a corporate retreat rah-rah cliche.
He’s correct, of course, but few corporations embrace the thought fully, except maybe investment bankers who have failed us all. But then that’s failure without reason.
“… it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you [...]
So, this quote is making the rounds, perhaps as some sort of commentary on the stimulus plan. It’s always interesting to see what else the author says. Here’s the first quote:
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work [...]
