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But free and open debate had not made his dreams come true. Instead, politicians had crushed them. And now he was going to make sure that, with the exception of Al Smith and Belle Moskowitz, no one—not citizenry, not press, not Legislature—was going to know what was in the bills dealing with parks that the Legislature was going to pass. The best bi
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venerated
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- The Event Level
Albert Rutherford • The Systems Thinker - Mental Models
“If he was sitting on the porch at the LBJ Ranch whittling toothpicks, he’d have to whittle more than anybody else in the country,” Dr. Cain was to say. They explained to Reedy that, in Reedy’s words, “to cut down his schedule would be worse than adding to it” because “his psychology was such” that the “frustrations” of idleness would be more likel
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a pulse just slightly faster than a typical human heartbeat.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
intransigent.