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When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
For the longest time, I tried to make the slogan “Just do it,” but it lost its effectiveness after a while. Now, I have a new motto. I was watching the news from Israel, and they had a clip with a cabinet minister. The interviewer kept pressing him to agree to the need to decide…
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To believe your own thoughts
I am listening to an audiobook by Adam Savage of MythBusters fame. He quoted a famous American essayist and philosopher. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” When…
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The Two Important Things in Politics
I’m listening to a podcast interview, and the guest mentioned this quote: “there are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember the second.” Senator Mark Hanna (1895)
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“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Mark Twain Article in City Journal, spring 2022. By John Tierney
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain