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“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman