"The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear."

-- J. D. Trout

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“The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”
“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'”
“More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.”
“the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion”
“When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.”

Source : Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.329
“We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.”
“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”
“Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.”

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