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“I can’t believe someone with such a supple mind actually got elected president.”
there is no such thing as negative feedback or positive feedback; there is only accurate feedback,
Effective leaders almost never need to yell.
Buried pain never gets better with age.
Harry Truman once said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” Humans tend to do the same dumb things, and the same evil things, again and again, because we forget.
It is hard to hate up close,
No large part of America has ever been entirely off-limits to judicial authority. President Obama was, by background and instinct, a civil libertarian, but he could see the darkness and the danger in talking about privacy as an absolute value,
One of my weaknesses, especially when I was younger, was overconfidence, a tendency to reach a conclusion quickly and cling to it too tightly.
