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These days the way to the top—meaning the road to test-pilot astronaut—involved being very good at a lot of things without necessarily being “shit-hot,” to use the beer-call expression, at anything.
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
But this shall never be: to us remains One city that has nothing of the beast, That was not built for gross, material gains, Sharp, wolfish power or empire’s glutted feast.
At the annual teacher training retreats there would be awe-inspiring seminars where powerful masters did “dharma combat” over a koan, until gradually the circle settled down to the most salient truth the koan opened up.
One Blade of Grass
Henry Shukman
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