"Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction."

-- Richard Saul Wurman

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“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”
“Are you listening, little bird?”
“It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.”
“Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.”
“Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.”

Source : "Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief" by Betsy McCaughey, www.wsj.com. August 27, 2009.
“You were never what I wanted to forget.”
“There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.”
“Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.”

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