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If The Modern Leader Doesn't Know The Facts, He Is In Grave Trouble, But Rarely Do The Facts Provide Unqualified Guidance.

The Best Kept Secret In America Today Is That People Would Rather Work Hard For Something They Believe In Than Live A Life Of Aimless Diversion.

Josh Billings Said, It Is Not Only The Most Difficult Thing To Know Oneself, But The Most Inconvenient One, Too. Human Beings Have Always Employed An Enormous Variety Of Clever Devices For Running Away From Themselves, And The Modern World Is Particularly Rich In Such Stratagems.

I Think That All Human Systems Require Continuous Renewal. They Rigidify. They Get Stuff In The Joints. They Forget What They Cared About. The Forces Against It Are Nostalgia And The Enormous Appeal Of Having Things The Way They Always Have Been, Appeals To A Supposedly Happy Past. But We've Got To Move On.

At Home We Have Lost The Capacity To See What Is Before Us. Travel Shakes Us Out Of Our Apathy, And We Regain An Attentiveness That Heightens Every Experience. The Exhilaration Of Travel Has Many Sources, But Surely One Of Them Is That We Recapture In Some Measure The Unspoiled Awareness Of Children.