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May 14, 2025

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post (1906-1996), South African explorer, writer, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), Jay p.373

When was the last time you were wrong and admitted it? Or wrong, knew it, and didn’t admit it? How easily did you sleep that night, in either case?

At a time when a willingness to compromise seems not simply elusive, but locked in some dark dungeon, we put the future of democracy at risk. Pigheadedness is no substitute.


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