"There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable."

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Source : "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.

Thomas Schelling

#Planning Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for oneâ€™s self without thought of profit.”
“I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.”
“We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider”
“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?”
“They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.”
“Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.”
“Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.”

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