It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Does an ‘explanation’ make it any less impressive.
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Catherine Aird
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
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Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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C S Lewis
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
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Robert Conquest
Three Laws of Politics:
1) Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2) Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3) The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. -
Alphonso X
Burn old logs
Drink old wine
Read old books
Keep old friends,