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I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners.... Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat.... Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters. Colin Henry Wilson		Friday May 08, 2026
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. Abba Eban

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	Abba Eban
	Abba Eban ( Hebrew: אבא אבן ‎, born Aubrey Solomon Meir on 2 February 1915, died 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Read More

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His ignorance is encyclopedic. Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.