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"If everyone adopts this “not me, them” mentality - i.e. assume others will shoulder the responsibility to reform and improve, do we not risk the chance of too many bright minds and deep pockets abandoning ship? And in the meantime would too many people be left to shoulder the burden who are not in the financial position to do so..?" — Aug 25, 2026 11:29AM
"If everyone adopts this “not me, them” mentality - i.e. assume others will shoulder the responsibility to reform and improve, do we not risk the chance of too many bright minds and deep pockets abandoning ship? And in the meantime would too many people be left to shoulder the burden who are not in the financial position to do so..?" — Aug 25, 2026 11:29AM
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sherlock Holmes
― Sherlock Holmes
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“When people are finding meaning in things - beware.”
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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“Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel”
― The Glass Bead Game
Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel”
― The Glass Bead Game
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