It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly about how terrible the modern world is compared with the past. They are nearly always wrong. On just about any dimension you can think of—warfare, crime, income, education,
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“Here he seeks out his last master: he wants to fight him and his last god; for ultimate victory he wants to fight with the great dragon. Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and god? “Thou shalt” is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, “I will.” “Thou shalt” lies in his way, sparkling like gold, an animal covered with scales; and on every scale shines a golden “thou shalt.” Values, thousands of years old, shine on these scales; and thus speaks the mightiest of all dragons: “All value of all things shines on me. All value has long been created, and I am all created value. Verily, there shall be no more ‘I will.’ ” Thus speaks the dragon. My brothers, why is there a need in the spirit for the lion? Why is not the beast of burden, which renounces and is reverent, enough?”
― The Portable Nietzsche
― The Portable Nietzsche
“Any religion, meanwhile, has its heretics, and global warming is no exception.”
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.”
― The Portable Nietzsche
― The Portable Nietzsche
“Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.”
― The Portable Nietzsche
― The Portable Nietzsche
“we learned that a story needs to be repeated many times before people understand how it applies to them and many more times again before they change their behavior.”
― Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
― Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
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