Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
战场交锋,即使列阵有方,但以勇猛为本;操办丧事,即使礼节周全,但以哀痛为本;文人学士,即使学富五车,但以德行为本
Leadership is about listening as much as it is about guiding.
The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.
The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.