"Live by the sword, due by the sword. I just didn't realise there would be so many swords!" Nick Clegg
"Conquering the world on horseback is easy. It is dismounting and governing that is hard" Genghis Khan
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
"Older peoples knowledge, the thing that made them the most revered and listened to social group, is now mostly considered to be stuff to be stored in the attic" Tommaso Pellizari
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
"Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous amounts of energy merely to be normal" Albert Camus
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth it contains.
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid" Albert Einstein
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AuthorAndrew Mills FCCA GAICD Archives
November 2015
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