Welcome to the Club of Liars!
The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
(This quote and variations of it can be found easily.) Considering the fact that each and everyone seems to stumble over this insight sooner or later it could well be based on a wee bit of eternal truth. However, if it is, it is hiding it very well. Indeed, what it shows is that history of history is unknown. Speaking of learning, it is not taught either.
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i c u + not how u c u + how i c u counts 4 me
+ not how u c u + what counts 4 me counts 4 u
She: I discovered that we are almost unique.
He: Define almost!
She: The problem is not the almost, the problem is the unique.
Though, of course, it is not the unique problem, but almost!
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“People matter. Objects don’t,”
he wrote on an object,
with a liar’s smile
on his face.
There is this wonderful short German phrase about quality being more important than quantity:
Qualität zählt!
Transcribed into English it reads:
Quality counts!
Of course, in English, one could wittily say “Quality matters!” Though, if you search the web for these treasures of linguistic and logical quality you will find similar quantities of texts stating the one or the other ;)
Since many writers even dare to add the statement “less is more” I wonder why they do not just stick to it.
