"Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest."

-- Franz Grillparzer

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“Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.”
“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.”

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“The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children.”
“How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
“You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.”
“The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity”
“To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.”

Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.399, Random House
“This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.”

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