"We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all - time to think and the habit of thought. Thought is the basic energy in human history. Civilization is put together not by machines but by thought. Leadership today requires not so much a determination to outsmart the other fellow as an understanding of the lessons of human experience. It requires a profound knowledge of the diseases of civilizations. It requires ability to anticipate the effects of actions. In short, it requires thought. There is no point passing the buck or looking for guilty parties. We got where we are because of the busy man in the mirror."
-Norman Cousins, Human Options
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Zowie that is good. E.
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