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The Conventional View Serves To Protect Us From The Painful Job Of Thinking. -- J.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
-- J. K. Galbraith
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A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high sense of consistency.
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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and this is not learning from experience.
-- Laurence J. Pete...
Far be it from us, the danger of thinking. -- Ferdinand VII
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end....
The hotel [in Kiev] checked us in very quickly. Unlike the one in Moscow, the door guard smiled, did not check our passes and did not wear a gun.
The hotel serves excellent country food for lunch, including dumpling soup, pork and homemade ice cream....
No one can possibly achieve success in the world by conforming to conventional practices and conventional ways of thinking.