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  • It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

    - Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craiglockhart
    In The Times, after he was sacked by Margaret Thatcher for publicly criticizing her anti-European stance.

  • Dass nicht alles auf einmal da ist, bleibt als Bedingung des Lebens und der Erz a« hlung zu achten, und man wird sich doch wohl gegen die gottgegebenen Formen menschlicher Erkenntnis nich auflehnen wollen. Let usnot forgetthe conditionof lifeasnarration: that we can never see the whole picture at onceunless we propose to throw overboard all the God-conditioned forms of human knowledge.

    -Thomas Mann
      Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), vol.2.

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