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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain Read more →

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Common sense ... has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively then proespectively. It seems to me that one of the principle criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively;... Read more →

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There are no things, only processes - David Joseph Bohm, 1917-1992 Any time someone shows up with a solution, looking for a problem to solve, ask first what's the problem you're trying to solve? Then ask, by what process will... Read more →

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not... Read more →

"Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the... Read more →

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If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long - Albert Einstein Read more →

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Ignore Everybody – You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not... Read more →

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not... Read more →

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I see one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished ... The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too... Read more →

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela But this education needs to come from credible sources. In our new world of disinformation we need to ask did you read that... Read more →

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.— Andre Gide 1869–1951 Read more →

Book(s) of the Month

This book was given to me early in my career by a mentor. It makes a clear and concise statement ... If you're working in a dysfunctional organization and you're unable to make the needed improvements to a level that... Read more →

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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. ― Anonymous Read more →

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as long as we stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, we will remain a Silly People - paraphrased by Lawrence of Arabia Read more →

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There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. - Richard Buckminster Fuller (US engineer and architect, 1895-1983) I was fortunate to be present in the studio when Buckminster Fuller was being interviewed on the... Read more →

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts - Mark Twain Read more →

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I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appliance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of... Read more →

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Most of us are not interested in greatness, just in common, ordinary, everyday achievement - Henry Million, MOT Professor, Director of the American Academy in Rome Read more →

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. - Benjamin Franklin Read more →

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Like a snake who must keep swimming to live, a politician must keep his lips continuously moving. - the opening of Chapter 6, Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, commenting on the General who he worked with in Vietnam and now worked... Read more →