Patrick Sheehan

“Suppose a surgeon and an anesthesiologist could not communicate with each other except through a hospital administrator about a patient on an operating table, he said. “Instead of [an] exchange of information [among] people who are attempting to accomplish a result . . . , we have made it virtually impossible.” Olson went on, “In order to connect the dots someone has got to have knowledge of those various different dots.”
― John Yoo, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror

“Men are not ciphers, and hearts, even Communist hearts, are not potatoes, and Americans would do well to remember it.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“the progress of violence always reasserted itself. The love of martial life seems to be an unquenchable human instinct”
― Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

“One of our biggest challenges is making sure our life’s purpose doesn’t become a beggar’s bowl, a bottomless pit of desire continually searching for the next thing that will make us happy. That’s a losing proposition.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results