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you should never let your suspect determine the rules of engagement. They’ll never write them in your favor.
I like people well enough, but not all of them at once. And I totally didn’t have the bullshit factor it takes to be a boss and convince a room full of people that you’re less clueless than they are.
She probably doesn’t think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous. Her greatest skill is not trying to focus on any one thing, but reading the entire world around her.
I’ve seen so much untapped potential in the darkest places. Children who could be doctors. Adults fixing bent bicycle rims with a spoon who could be designing Teslas. If you were to ask me what’s broken in this world, I’d say it’s the amount of talent found in the places we ignore.
“Hard to imagine how someone could do that to another person,” I reply. “No, it’s not. You just make a person not a person. You start with a label. Maybe it’s a different political party or religion from your own. Then you make them that label and everything you hate about it.
The damage from September 11 wasn’t just the people lost, it was the psychological impact and how it changed all our lives. If you want to do real damage, you don’t just break a thing, you destroy a system.”
The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.
“The lesson was: if you can’t discern one species’ pattern, look for the patterns of the other species it shares an ecosystem with.”
A question leads you down a rabbit hole, and then suddenly you’re discussing the rabbit hole itself. And every answer, it seems, leads to two more questions.
She saw my light and my shadow but didn’t realize that the real me was the shadow.
As hard as it is for Jessica to see it, we live in a world where leaders of nations can send missiles into other countries to clumsily murder enemies, kill innocents with drones, and still be given the Nobel Peace Prize. How would humanity look at the man who cured cancer—and had a viable explanation for his reckless behavior? Would people even remember him for the evil things he’s done? Would they care?
