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Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
“Those who think they see most clearly are often more blind than the rest.”
― Hunters of Dune
― Hunters of Dune
“I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: "May be dangerous to your health." One of the most dangerous presidents we had in this century was John Kennedy because people said "Yes Sir Mr. Charismatic Leader what do we do next?" and we wound up in Vietnam. And I think probably the most valuable president of this century was Richard Nixon. Because he taught us to distrust government and he did it by example.”
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“We all define ourselves by the people around us, because that’s the kind of monkey we are.”
― Tiamat's Wrath
― Tiamat's Wrath
“Americans unhappy with the reflexively polarized politics of the first decades of the twenty-first century will find the presidency of George H. W. Bush refreshing, even quaint. He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.”
― Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
― Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Chris’s 2024 Year in Books
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