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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.
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"We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
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Lauren Willig |
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You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.
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Jim Butcher |
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If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.
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