TED was simply wonderful, an ...

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
 Kurt Andersen

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.
 Kurt Andersen