"For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us."

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Source : Harlan Cleveland (1966). “The obligations of power: American diplomacy in the search for peace”

Harlan Cleveland

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“Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.”
“My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.”
“From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.”
“If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.”
“I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.”

Source : "Holland Taylor stirs things up on 'Two and a Half Men'". Associated Press, www.today.com. August 10, 2004.
“Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.”
“I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.”
“We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.”

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