“Like most visionaries, The Teller saw the distant future with optical-glass clarity, the intermediate future with beeswax clarity, and the immediate future with the clarity of dark glasses dipped in tar.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 153)
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Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
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Variant: Opposites are complementary.
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Part 1, section 4.
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Maxim 729, Réflexions et maximes ("Reflections and Maxims") (1746).