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One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”
There is no foolproof algorithm for life’s difficult choices. But the research shows that you can get better at making them. One important insight that has emerged from this research is the importance of generating… Read more
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And say simply, very simply, with hope , good morning
Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, into Your brother’s face, your country And say simply Very simply With… Read more
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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.
THESE are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love… Read more
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To think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday. Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 1961) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1933/schrodinger/biographical/ Read more
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. Publilius Syrus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publilius_Syrus Read more
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To draw a line, to say enough, to speak out, to make a stand whatever the cost
There comes a moment, when the barbarian is within, to draw a line, to say enough, to speak out, to make a stand whatever the cost. The desperation of mortality can also yield the lucidity… Read more
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The hope of our time
The hope of our time rests with those who can summon the conviction and restraint to make sense of our condition and repair the civic life on which democracy depends. Michael Sandel https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/home Read more
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You never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune
The farmer steadfastly refrained from thinking of things in terms of gain or loss, advantage or disadvantage, because one never knows… In fact we never really know whether an event is fortune or misfortune, we… Read more
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The whole of life is about another chance
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.… Read more
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Questions that have no right to go away
Sometimesif you move carefullythrough the forest, breathinglike the onesin the old stories, who could crossa shimmering bed of leaveswithout a sound, you come to a placewhose only task is to trouble youwith tinybut frightening requests,… Read more
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