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Mastery Is Not Something That Strikes In An Instant, Like A Thunderbolt, But A Gathering Power That Moves Steadily Through Time, Like Weather.

Nothing Can Be More Readily Disproved Than The Old Saw, "you Can't Keep A Good Man Down." Most Human Societies Have Been Beautifully Organized To Keep Good Men Down.

If Our Society Continues At Its Present Rate To Become Less Livable As It Becomes More Affluent, We Promise All To End Up In Sumptuous Misery.

One Of The Reasons People Stop Learning Is That They Become Less And Less Willing To Risk Failure.

I Think That All Human Systems Require Continuous Renewal. They Rigidify. They Get Stuff In The Joints. They Forget What They Cared About. The Forces Against It Are Nostalgia And The Enormous Appeal Of Having Things The Way They Always Have Been, Appeals To A Supposedly Happy Past. But We've Got To Move On.