"Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'"

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Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

Ralph Ellison

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“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”
“A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.”

Source : "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.
“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
“I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.”
“When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.”
“Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.”

Source : Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
“For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.”

Source : "The Causes of World War Three". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1958.
“Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.”

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