Sacrifice
“My counsels to you are of that nature that they are sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.”
Demosthenes to the Athenians 384 – 322 BC
"Common Sense"
Voltaire to Nielsen: "Common sense is not so common." “One may reasonably ask: Why do people cling to the values and practices of the past, when they so obviously no longer work? Long-standing thought patterns are hard to overcome because they often appear to serve the interests of the individual, and old ways of thinking are simpler and easier to handle. In a two-valued way of thinking, as in good and bad, right and wrong, love and hate, cause and effect, very little logical analysis is involved.” “I don’t get upset if people think I’m crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that’s the way I think about the world. They don’t know any better.” Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 – May 18, 2017), The Best That Money Can't Buy
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