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It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”
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“Either you think about things and try to understand them or you reach for relatively empty soundbites and slogans which excuse you from the difficult business of trying to understand things.”
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“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.”
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“Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.”
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“Elsewhere, people like Aunt Emily clack away at their typewriters, spreading words like buckshot, aiming at the shadow in the sky.”
― Obasan
― Obasan
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