Iraq? They just need to think it through (2007)
Context: What happened was, 2,400 years ago, the Greek Gang of Three, by whom I mean Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, started to think based on analysis, judgment and knowledge. At the same time, church people, who ran the schools and universities, wanted logic to prove the heretics wrong. As a result, design and perceptual thinking was never developed. People assumed philosophers were doing it and so they blocked anyone else from doing it. But philosophers were not. Philosophers may look out at the world from a stained-glass window, but after a while they stop looking at the world and start looking at the stained glass.
“Some stains don't come out.”
Morality
Pet Sematary (1983)
Variant: Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
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Of his unrivall'd pencil.”
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A bright stain on the vision
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Second term as Prime Minister
Excerpts from a speech to the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific, 13 May 2005
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