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This requires a nuanced understanding of the complexities of power and the importance of adaptability in the face of adversity.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, consider the need for your organization or community to develop a sense of strategic resilience, the ability to navigate complex systems and make swift, informed decisions in the face of uncertainty. This requires cultivating a culture of experimentation, learning from failures, and being willing to adapt and evolve in response to changing circumstances.",{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":9},3383181,"The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality – or to block it off. 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Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[53],{"id":54,"tag":55},4268326,{"id":56,"tag_name":57},166,"games",{"id":59,"quote_text":60,"author_id":5,"source_id":38,"has_image":18,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":9},1270359,"You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[64],{"id":65,"tag":66},4268305,{"id":67,"tag_name":68},194359,"documentaries",{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":38,"has_image":18,"author":72,"source":73,"quote_tag":74,"commentary":9},1270338,"The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[75],{"id":76,"tag":77},4268289,{"id":78,"tag_name":79},496,"war",{"id":81,"quote_text":82,"author_id":5,"source_id":38,"has_image":18,"author":83,"source":84,"quote_tag":85,"commentary":9},1270322,"The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[86],{"id":87,"tag":88},4268266,{"id":89,"tag_name":90},3625,"country",{"id":92,"quote_text":93,"author_id":5,"source_id":38,"has_image":18,"author":94,"source":95,"quote_tag":96,"commentary":9},1270296,"I think once you accept that you have the answer to everything, you can do anything to bring it about because your enemies are trying to stop you, are enemies of reason, of truth of everything - enemies of the future. 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