"He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“Yeah we shine, gold cluster. As for your career? Dead, Ghost Busters.”
“It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.”
“Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.”
“Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.”
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.”
“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”
“The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.259
“The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million or so are underinsured. The people who are insured do have to worry whether they are able to pay the bills. People become bankrupt because they cannot pay the medical bills, and there are vast differences in the quality of care depending on how much you are prepared and able to pay. I think the system is not working well.”

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