When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.
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