"We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us."

-- Peter Senge

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“Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.”
“I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.”
“The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.”
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.”
“The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.”
“Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.”
“No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1961). “From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-meridian Years”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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