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The plausible promise, the definition of success, and the avoidance of disappointment
C. Holland wrote Aug. 3 about “Disappointment Avoidance.” I’ve been working pretty hard on some other projects and haven’t gotten this far down in my Google Reader subscriptions, but I was very interested in this particular article and how it relates to the swarmish idea of the plausible promise. In particular this passage was interesting [...]
Perfect, Great, Good
While perusing this article about Oxford University and the Google Book Settlement, I ran across this quote from Voltaire: ‘Le mieux est l’enemi du bien’—the perfect is the enemy of the good. I was struck by how much this can tend to apply to any human endeavor, not least the sending of apostolic missionaries.
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