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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #30

If you want to know what education “reformers” really think of the reforms they advocate, look where they send their own kids to school.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #29

Politicians often make the mistake of believing that their constituents agree with their positions, when they got themselves elected largely by convincing enough voters that their opponents are worse than they are.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #26

David Barry points out that a person who is nice to you but mean to the waiter, is not a nice person.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #25

The more an advertising campaign spends trying to convince you that something is true, the more likely it is not. (Corporate advertising, political ads, etc.)

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #20

George Bernard Shaw said it best: “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #17

My dad used to say, if you want to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #15

Hegel was right: “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #13

Democracy breaks down when one side tries to win at the expense of their opponents, instead of trying to find ways to get to win-win.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #9

My friend Loyd once said that nobody is against profit. However, a lot of us are against loot.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #5

A simple solution to a complex problem almost always fails, or at least, causes more problems than it solves. (H.L. Mencken’s famous quip said something along these lines.)

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