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The more you clarify your position and defend it against attack, the more committed you become to it. The more you try to convince the other side of the impossibility of changing your opening position, the more difficult it becomes to do so.
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
We do not make the universe hold its breath by holding ours.
Three Philosophies of Life
Peter Kreeft
From this proposition it follows that the institution of a leisure class acts to make the lower classes conservative by withdrawing from them as much as it may of the means of sustenance, and so reducing their consumption, and consequently their available energy, to such a point as to make them incapable of the effort required for the learning and adoption of new habits of thought.
Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
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