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Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

James A. C. Brown (1911-1964) Scottish psychiatrist, author [James Alexander Campbell Brown]
Techniques of Persuasion: From Propaganda to Brainwashing, ch. 9 (1963)

Reporters, especially those in Washington, face an old journalistic dilemma: because their stature tends to rise and fall with that of the people they cover, they thus have a stake in the successes of their subject.

Walter Isaacson (b. 1952) American writer, biographer, journalist, editor
Kissinger: A Biography, ch. 25 (1992)

Power brings with it responsibility. You cannot have power to work well without having so much power as to be able to work ill.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) US President (1901-1909)
Speech, Milwaukee (7 Sep 1910)

Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.

[Politeness is often wasted, but it is a good and cheap mistake to make.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.

Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American clergyman and writer
“Ampersand”, Little Rivers (1895)
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