"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”
“I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.”
“Comfort and indolence are cronies.”
“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”

Source : James Paul Gee (2014). “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition”, p.21, Macmillan
“It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.”
“Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.”
“Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.”
“The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.”

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