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Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#changes #confronted #control #external #initiated

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#longest #lungs #measures #most #strongest

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong. ↗

— Barry White

#save #streets #strong #too #tried

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong. ↗

— Barry White

#brothers #families #five #four #had

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bits #blew #circle #crowd

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#irony #neither #sarcasm

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #certain #certain extent #certainly #come

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#any #change #climate #climate change #combined