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UNDERSTANDING:

¶ "It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much - everything in a flash - before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence." (Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim.)
UNEMPLOYMENT:

¶ "Society has subdivided itself enough to have a place for every form of talent. Thus, if a man show the least sign of ability as a sculptor or a painter, for instance, he finds the means of education and demand for his services. Even a man who knows nothing but science will be provided for, if he does not think it necessary to hang about his birth-place all his days ..." (Holmes.)
UNITED NATIONS:

¶ "That nations which were manifestly unable to govern themselves individually -- many having acquired nationhood the day before yesterday -- should be credited with the ability to govern all nations collectively, including those with centuries of tradition and cohesion behind them [is an absurdity]." (Kenneth McDonald, His [Trudeau] Pride Our Fall, Key Porter Books, 1995, p 45.)

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