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“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“ადამიანები კუნძულები არიან, ოკეანე კი ილუზია, როგორც კი ეს ილუზია ამოშრება, კუნძულები მიხვდებიან, რომ ისინი სინამდვილეში ერთი მთლიანობა იყვნენ და არიან”
― მე ოქსიმორონი
― მე ოქსიმორონი
“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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