"The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better."

-- Douglas Engelbart

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“We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.”
“When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.”
“The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.”

Source : John Mortimer (1994). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”, Viking Press
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.”

Source : "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.
“I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.”
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“Common sense is genius in homespun.”

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