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Today... things indicate that we are going through a transitional period... it seems that... something else is painfully being born. As if something were... decaying... while something else were arising from the rubble. V. Havel (1994) #TRFEurope bit.ly/39J5IBh

People want leaders to project compassion & understanding of how the situation is for those concerned, & to project hope that together we can manage the crisis, even if we don't know everything about the present situation. I. Helsloot #TRFEurope bit.ly/3m5fYJ1

Effective crisis leadership [...is not] simply doing the right thing... leaders [must] craft a narrative to clarify the problem and unite people... to attain the "permissive consensus" that is essential to... make decisions... A. Boin #TRFEurope bit.ly/3ujRTRF

The spiritual dimension of the Net has no symbols or rituals. Still, we disclose ourselves, flame and forgive each other, escape loneliness, anxiety, or fear, find consolation, sex and even love, all in cyberspace Richard Thieme #TRFEurope bit.ly/3rzRd8P

Postmodern thinking radicalizes people... it makes knowledge appear to be arbitrary and political. It's why public figures unironically claim they have "alternative facts" as if the term wasn't an oxymoron. Mark Manson, Mindf*ck Monday #TRFEurope bit.ly/3waSRkL

The marginless life is a relatively new invention and one of the progress's most unreasonable ideas. Yet in a very short time it has become a nearly universal malady - Richard A. Swenson,�Margin bit.ly/2Hse5pE #TRFEurope bit.ly/33dnRDL

It is dangerous to show man too clearly how much he resembles the beast without at the same time showing him his greatness. It is also dangerous to allow him too clear a vision of his greatness without his baseness � Blaise Pascal #TRFEurope bit.ly/3fyU1i3

In contrast to managers, who are in the business of ensuring the maintenance of an even keel, leaders are in the business of disruption. Their job is to anticipate disruption, to cope with disruption, and often to create disruption. #TRFEurope bit.ly/2Hut6HH

The role of political leaders is to filter and refine public passions rather than to stoke them, to be alert to the threat posed by angry populism, and to keep at bay institutional arsonists" - P WEHNER, The Atlantic magazine, USA #TRFEurope bit.ly/3sBrqhT

The... bottom line is that given how self-reinforcing the... political malaise is... the decay of US politics will... continue until some external shock catalyze[s] a true reform coalition and galvanizes it into action. F.Fukuyama #TRFEurope bit.ly/3w94Q29

if we have ten times more material abundance than our ancestors, why are we not ten times more content and fulfilled? Richard A. Swenson, in MARGIN: RESTORING EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, FINANCIAL AND TIME RESERVES TO OVERLOADED LIVES #TRFEurope bit.ly/3fs3WWx

Misjudgement (leads to adoption of belief in) progress realising itself naturally and automatically (without needing) any ethical ideals, but advanc(ing) towards its goals by means of knowledge and work alone - Albert Schweizer #TRFEurope bit.ly/2O6LrOn

Neither modernity nor post-modernity has any idea what to do when the ice-caps melt, and the barbarians turn up at the gates - N. T. Wright in Loving to Know bit.ly/3sA5ELv #TRFEurope bit.ly/2PB8lh7

"Extreme worst case scenarios are the least likely outcome of an actual crisis (because) linear changes morph into cyclic swings or dissolve in turbulence before they reach the point of absurdity" - John Michael Greer #TRFEurope bit.ly/3lZ91bt

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all - quote from Chernobyl, the miniseries from HBO #TRFEurope bit.ly/36cWAD9

That our age might be described as painful comes as a discomforting surprise when we consider the many advantages we have over previous generations - Richard A. Swenson, Margin bit.ly/3pp9OUM #TRFEurope bit.ly/3t1jcQS

Facebook, Google and Amazon should all be broken up, [and the] App Store should be regulated. [They have] become invasive species that... euthanize big companies & perform infanticide on startups" - Scott Galloway #TRFEurope bit.ly/2Ymlgo5

Most (anti-mask protestors) are open about their values: I would rather put my health at risk, and the health of others, than curtail my freedom. - Keith Kahn-Harris, in Denial: The Unspeakable Truth. #TRFEurope bit.ly/3pmW9NX

A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought. He is asked to surpass his deeds, to do more than he understands in order to understand more than he does. Abraham Joshua Heschel #TRFEurope bit.ly/339qQx0

Pain and the absence of margin (in one's life) are related. Richard A. Swenson, Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, though the brackets are ours #TRFEurope bit.ly/2KS9bUM