In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
Withholding a decision is a decision.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.