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It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. Jon Meacham

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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? Jon Meacham

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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either. Jon Meacham

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires. Jon Meacham

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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. Jon Meacham

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Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans. Jon Meacham

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers. Jon Meacham

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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. Jon Meacham

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We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. Jon Meacham

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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. Jon Meacham

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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. Joseph Lelyveld

Not too many people know who the editor is. Julius Schwartz

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Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. Julius Schwartz

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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. Kevin Kelly

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. Kevin Kelly

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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. Kevin Kelly

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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. Kevin Kelly

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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. Kevin Kelly

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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. Kevin Kelly

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. Kevin Kelly

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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at. Kevin Kelly

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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. Kevin Kelly

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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. Kevin Kelly

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