"USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age."

-- Gore Vidal

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“You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.”
“For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, â€œCan I believe this?â€, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, â€œMust I believe this?”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.”
“At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.”
“In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.”
“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”

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