Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland
The cargo cult organization mass produces a personality type that uses “data” to flee from reality.
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The inherent danger of all bureaucratic organizations is the tendency to make the process the goal.
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The word functions to launder legitimacy from civilizational pillars to the political whims of any organization that employs more than five people
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progressive in the original sense, a reform ideology rooted in middle-class concerns for general social welfare in the wake of sweeping technological change
Max Read • Platform Temperance
This way of thinking is, of course, not only countercultural but downright heretical in our own era of blame-thirsty opinions ossified into identities — because understanding is a dynamic thing, evolving as it integrates and relates new information, it is the antithesis to the stasis of opinion and an antidote to it, a way of remembering that we... See more
Activist and former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, on the path to growth:
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ... You must do the thing you
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As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you
