Jonathan

“was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Within a year, he had discovered it: Harlem, in particular 125th and 126th streets, the broad prospects lined with shops and row houses. “Nearly all of Harlem was for sale,” Henry remembered. Block after block of the stone and brick houses built a decade earlier had passed to mortgagees, while those who owned the houses were “thoroughly discouraged and could see little hope in the future.”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“McNamara’s attempt to gain supporters failed. “I do not think there is a military problem there,” argued the secretary of defense. As”
― Serhii Plokhy, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

“For Shultz, differences of opinion and philosophy were grist for vigorous debate, not grounds for ideological warfare and the abandonment of friendships.”
― Philip Taubman, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz