August 2010
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“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to...”
– Simone Weil, “The Iliad” or “The Poem of Force” (1940), quoted in Chris Hedges, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), 21.
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“[M]an … is moulded by society just as effectively as society is moulded by...”
– Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History? (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), 39, 57–58.
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“Whenever historians and social scientists talk about the military as a...”
– Michael Geyer, “The Past as Future: The German Officer Corps as Profession,” in German Professions, 1800-1950, ed. Geoffrey Cocks and Konrad H. Jarausch (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 183.
“There’s always an ROF (Return on Failure) when you try to simplify—which...”
– John Maeda, Laws of Simplicity, 83.
“The practice of education is the highest form of intellectual philanthropy.”
– John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006), 36. 