Paibul

“In practice, the social mirror had helped to overthrow the conceit of a single, unified, and regimented ‘Thai culture’ or ‘Thai nation’. What remained was something more casual, and more subject to personal interpretation.”
― Chris Baker, A History of Thailand

“A lot of historical writing has been characterized as ODTAA—“one damn thing after another”—without an effort to extract general rules or causal theories that can be applied in other circumstances.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” —PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Deliberative assemblies shall be widely established and all matters decided by open discussion. 3. All classes, high and low, shall be united in vigorously carrying out the administration of affairs of state. 4. The common people, no less than the civil and military officials, shall all be allowed to pursue their own calling so that there may be no discontent. 5. Evil customs of the past shall be broken off and everything based upon the just laws of Nature. 6. Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundation of imperial rule.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order