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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 →

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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 →

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The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. - William Wordsworth (1770–1850) Read more →

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And no matter where you go or what you do, you will be inextricably bound to a brotherhood that spans continents and generations. Every hearth that bears the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is home, every arm being that brand brings... Read more →

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Don’t let the tool control the hand that uses it. – Lt Gen H. H. Driessnack, USAF When we hear about solutions looking for problems to solve, think of General Driessnack's advice. Find the problem first. Then find the corrective... Read more →