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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. Hyman George Rickover

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	Hyman George Rickover
	(1900-1986) US Navy Admiral, Father of the Nuclear Navy, b. in Russia, on active duty 63+ years.

Other Hyman George Rickover Quotes

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Half-truths are like half a brick they can be thrown farther.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

It is necessary for us to learn from others mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.