I don’t care about having all the answers, just about asking good questions. And writing things down, and sharing the ideas with others.

“There are two pains in life.  The pain of discipline and the pain of regret.  Take your choice.” 

What it means to earn your place in history isn’t to become one of The Greats, but to be fully human.

"My observation is that our planet doesn't suffer from a lack of resources, just a lack of competence in managing those resources."

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Politicians and businessmen have re-discovered the power of Lenin’s old idea that a lie repeated often enough, becomes the truth. This dark assumption throws a pall over America as well as the entire world and endangers democracy itself. When people believe that their government systemically lies to them they become cynical. Cynicism breeds apathy and a sense of powerlessness that causes people to withdraw from public life.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man wh

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