He was not finding life as a white man the rosy existence he had anticipated. He was forced to conclude that it was pretty dull and that he was bored.
“Whatever one may think about democratic government, it is just as well to have practical experience of its rough and slatternly foundations. No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Here”
― Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
― Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
“The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.”
― The Plot Against America
― The Plot Against America
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
“Corporate cultures can be arrayed along the same three dimensions as national cultures: universalistic-particularistic, egalitarian-hierarchical, and individualistic-communitarian. Once”
― The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers
― The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers
“Every happy man should have some one with a little hammer at his door to knock and remind him that there are unhappy people, and that, however happy he may be, life will sooner or later show its claws, and some misfortune will befall him -- illness, poverty, loss, and then no one will see or hear him, just as he now neither sees nor hears others. But there is no man with a hammer, and the happy go on living, just a little fluttered with the petty cares of every day, like an aspen-tree in the wind -- and everything is all right.”
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
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