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“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so frequent, the diversity of voices I engage with is far higher than in the pre-Internet age—and all this has helped me become more modest as a thinker, more open to error, less fixated on what I do know, and more respectful of what I don't. If this is a deterioration in my brain, then more, please. "The problem is finding the space and time when this engagement stops, and calm, quiet, thinking and reading of longer-form arguments, novels, essays can begin. Worse, this also needs time for the mind to transition out of an instant gratification mode to me a more long-term, thoughtful calm. I find this takes at least a day of detox. Getting weekends back has helped. But if there were a way to channel the amazing insights of blogging into the longer, calmer modes of thinking ... we'd be getting somewhere. "I'm working on it.”

“Het massaal verlies van de drie regeringspartijen gaat slechts in zeer beperkte. mate gepaard met winst voor de PVV en voor AGALEV. De verschuiving werkt bijna uitsluitend in het voordeel van de twee partijen, Vlaams Blok en ROSSEM, die zich in de marge van de Belgische democratie bewegen. Hun gezamenlijke netto-winst in Vlaanderen en Brussel bedraagt 488. 000 stemmen.”

“In de pleidooien van wie zich tegen dramatiserende commentaar verzet klinkt vaak de stelling door dat het gros van de kiezers op 24 november 1991 niet van partij veranderd is. Dat is uiteraard juist. Toch is aan te nemen dat voor een aantal partijgetrouwen een overstap naar het Vlaams Blok en ROSSEM in de toekomst niet uitgesloten is. Op basis van enkele enquêtes mag gezegd worden dat beide partijen in Vlaanderen nog over een werfreserve beschikken.”