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"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
— William Arthur Ward
— William Arthur Ward
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"I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futility of a competence stillborn there. To understand this you have to become this."
— Kenneth Cain (Emergency Sex)
— Kenneth Cain (Emergency Sex)
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