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March 12, 2025

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American scientist, Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein (1954), Seldes p.119

Name five occasions when you were careless with the truth? Six? Too many to cite?

Beware white liars. Of course, not every one of them will become a big liar, but every big one started out as a white liar.

April 20, 2025

10 months ago

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

August 10, 2025

7 months ago

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.

August 27, 2025

6 months ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

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