Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
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The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
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I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
