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“Unfortunately, growing up with a zero-sum perspective is like a horse wearing blinders – it limits the field of view for opportunity.”

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"The first rule of space travel...is that mistakes are fatal. Space isn’t friendly; it kills you. And there are no second chances."

— Charles Stross

Literature1964

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"Sanctions in themselves can not be enough, because if you weaken society, while you weaken the regime, it has less means to really combat . If is reinforced and reinvigorated, then the whole dynamics …"

— Reza Pahlavi

Politics1960–1980

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"The big debate in Washington is totally pointless. And the media, about whether Bush downgraded terror in order to invade Iraq. There's nothing to debate. He invaded Iraq. That proves beyond doubt tha…"

— Noam Chomsky

Philosophy1928

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"By the end of the Second World War, every American past the age of 40 had been subjected to some 25 years of anti-communist radiation, the average incubation period needed to produce a malignancy. Ant…"

— William Blum

Journalism1933–2018

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