#mentat

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#civil war #continue #country #dominated #forces

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #failure

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. ↗

— Criss Jami

#battle #bias #combat #discernment #disputes

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. ↗

— Tony Blair

#commentators #cynics #human #human progress #never

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#becoming #documentation #lack #problem

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#demand #economy #implementation #instrument #prices

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#good #good idea #hard #hard work #idea

One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the adherence of minds. It is in terms of this alternative that the opposition between spiritual freedom and constraint is most clearly seen. The use of argumentation implies that one has renounced resorting to force alone, that value is attached to gaining the adherence of one's interlocutor by means of reasoned persuasion, and that one is not regarding him as an object, but appealing to his free judgment. Recourse to argumentation assumes the establishment of a community of minds, which, while it lasts, excludes the use of violence. ↗

— Chaim Perelman

#rhetoric #freedom