Sunday, 9 August
Two thoughts from Garry Kasparov
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
“Dictatorships must be feared to survive so they cannot bear to be mocked.”
Monday, 10 August
Two thoughts from Rahel Varnhagen
“What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.”
“Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.”
Tuesday, 11 August
Two thoughts from Poul Anderson
“Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.”
“A fanatic’s willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.”
Wednesday, 12 August
Two thoughts from Frédéric Gros
“Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.”
“The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time...but haste and speed accelerate time, which passes more quickly, and two hours of hurry shorten a day”
Thursday, 13 August
Two thoughts from Marshall Goldsmith
“What got you here won’t get you there.”
“If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.”
Friday, 14 August
Two thoughts from Paul Erdős
“It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.”
“God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.”
Saturday, 15 August
Two thoughts from Morgan Richard Olivier
“Your mind is a compass. Wherever your mind goes, your actions or reactions will ultimately take you.”
“When people reveal themselves,
believe them.
Stop painting prettier pictures
with the red flags you see.”
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