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“Ah, where will I find flowers, come winter, and where the sunshine? Walls stand cold.”
— Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion and Selected Poems
Tagged: Winter, Change
“The kind of person that makes you believe you are a masterpiece, but touches you like you are the first drops of rain after a long drought, and treats you like you put the stars and the moon in the night sky, be with them.”
— Nikita Gill, The Kind of Person
Tagged: Who To Love, Love
“For politicians, the striving for power is an unavoidable tool of their trade. Thus the ‘power instinct,’ as it is often called, belongs among their normal attributes. However, the sin against the Holy Spirit of their profession begins where this striving for power is separated from the matter in hand and becomes an object purely of self-intoxication instead of something that enters exclusively into the service of their ‘cause.’ For ultimately there are only two kinds of mortal sin in the field of politics: the lack of commitment to a cause and the lack of a sense of responsibility that is often, but not always, identical with it. Vanity, the need to thrust oneself center stage, is what is most likely to lead the politician into the temptation of committing either or both of these sins. All the more, as the demagogue is forced to play for ‘effect.’ Because he is concerned only with the ‘impression’ he is making, he always runs the risk both of turning into an actor and of taking too lightly his responsibility for his own actions. His lack of objectivity leads him to strive for the glittering facade of power, instead of its reality, while his lack of a sense of responsibility seduces him into enjoying power for its own sake, rather than for its substantive purpose.”
— Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures: “Science as a Vocation" & "Politics as a Vocation"(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Vanity, Politics and Ego
“For the very people who think themselves called upon to be leaders are frequently the least qualified to be so.”
— Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures: “Science as a Vocation" & "Politics as a Vocation"(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Leadership
“I thought I knew but I don't; I don't know anything at all.”
— From Indian Lakes, We Follow(Stereotypes Remix)
Tagged: Exformation
“Through the bullshit, I remain real.”
— Rae Sremmurd, Came A Long Way
Tagged: Authenticity
“If you succeed, then the country succeeds.”
— Barack Obama, Trump and Obama Hold Cordial 90-Minute Meeting in Oval Office
Tagged: Election 2016
“This work is bigger than any presidency and progress does not move in a straight line. The most important opportunities of Max's generation -- like curing all disease, improving education, connecting everyone and promoting equal opportunity -- will take long term focus and finding new ways for all of us to work together, sometimes over decades.

We are all blessed to have the ability to make the world better, and we have the responsibility to do it. Let's go work even harder.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
Tagged: Election 2016, Progress
“How many 'media elites' can honestly say they know Trump voters personally?”
— Brian Stelter, MEDIA FAILURE: 52 questions; the Trump blind spot; Nate Silver's take on the polls; record cable ratings; newsrooms as 'loyal opposition;' what now?
Tagged: Election 2016
“We are all now rooting for Trump's success. ”
— Barack Obama, President Obama: 'We're all rooting for Trump'
Tagged: Election 2016