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Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#separation-of-powers #design

When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms. ↗

— Kate Griffin

#out-of-body #work #experience

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. ↗

— John Dewey

#experience #nature #philosophy-of-life #communication

Experience is the treasure of any persona. ↗

— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#philosophy-of-life #experience

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

I didn't understand at all that the memories accumulated during years of happiness could weigh enough to balance so large a loss, or that the mind will sometimes find a way to free the heart from pain. ↗

— Eric Kraft

#experience

Whatever’s missing is what you’re not giving. You are a divine power plant. And a power plant doesn’t receive energy, it generates it. It’s the same as saying you already have the kingdom of heaven within you. And when you activate the best in you, it generates an energy that must appear in your experience. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #experience

Remember, it is done unto you as you believe. It’s not “I’ll believe it when I see it,” it’s “You’ll see it when you believe it.” You can’t make a demand on life that exceeds your belief about it — because you don’t experience life as it is, you experience life as you are. You literally experience the personification of your own perceptions. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #experience

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#life

If you offer some good plans to a person and you face the rejection, don't ever mind bad. When you planned something for a person, a person may, too was planning something for himself. To speak openly, even your sincere offering to God is too experience a rejection. Don't you remember the phrase "Man proposes and God disposes". ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#offers #plan #proposal #rejection #remember