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“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”
“You damned liberals.” “I don’t know what that means.” “It means you’re too soft-hearted to ever actually do anything.”
Well, back before the beginning, Paul Bunyan came to Mars, and he brought his blue ox Babe with him. He walked around looking for lumber and his every footprint cracked the lava and left a rift canyon. He was so tall that he could reach into the asteroid belt while he walked around, and he chewed those rocks like Bing cherries and spit the pits out and boom there would be another crater.
It was a mistake to speak one’s mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.
