Personal reflections on daily life, political and artistic issues by a middle-aged man who feels the need to step back from corporate life and think a little harder about the things that matter.
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
- John Macnaughton
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"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plentitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties ... What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more."
- Susan Sontag
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"It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
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"For every complex question there is a simple answer, and it is wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
Yesterday was the first in a few weeks that I missed posting here.
Travel, meetings, dinner with colleagues, etc.
Still, I missed writing.
I think that I have come to depend on this as a private sounding board.
Good.
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