“Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.” RealEndsEnoughSituationCircumstancesExtremesAbstractThe End Of The Day Author:Boaz Lavie
“In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.” FirstsEndsCircumstancesPleaseAdversityEaseDistressBent Author:Jonathan Swift
“In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.” MenMaySoulEndsFormConditionsObjectsCircumstancesCommunicateDestroyedVarietyInternalsSurroundDisagreeImpressDefinite Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.” WayEndsInterestSpecialCommunicationCircumstancesBenefitsSpecial InterestsPublic Good Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion