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the doubters never failed to be put down by a large majority, and all true believers exulted as in a victory.
“The problem is not that Afghans unite and then cannot be conquered; the problem is that Afghans fragment and then cannot be governed”
― Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
― Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
“Be disciple of depth in shallow world.”
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.”
― Propaganda
― Propaganda
“There are certain queer ones and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own... And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Of all games in the world, the one most universally and eternally popular is the game of school. You collect six children and put them on a doorstep, while you walk up and down with the book and cane. Only one thing mars it: the tendency of one and all of other six children to clamour for their turn with the book and cane. The reason, I am sure, that journalism is so popular a calling, in spite of its many drawbacks, is this: each journalist feels he is the boy walking up and down with the cane. The Government, the Classes, and the Masses, Society, Art, and Literature, are the other children sitting on the doorstep.
[published in 1900]”
― Three Men on the Bummel
[published in 1900]”
― Three Men on the Bummel
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