The Case Against Revolution: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Drafts

The story of a recent document:

First draft: 20 paragraphs

Second draft: 17 paragraphs

Third draft: 16 paragraphs

Fourth draft: 12 paragraphs

Fifth draft: 9 paragraphs

Sixth and final draft: 7 paragraphs

Many brilliant sentences made the supreme sacrifice to produce a far better result.

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Curious

Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.

- Dee Hock

A Minor Action

They described it as a minor action, no big deal, and after all, everybody does it so why worry?

Only everybody doesn't do it and it was a very big deal and they cannot point to an action over the last twenty years that is bigger.

I'll refrain from putting my much stronger feelings into print. 

A minor action indeed.



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First Paragraph

Between 1814 and 1846 a plaster elephant stood on the site of the Bastille. For much of this time it presented a very sorry spectacle. Pilgrims in search of revolutionary inspiration were brought up short at the sight of it, massive and lugubrious, at the southeast end of the square. By 1830, when revolution revisited Paris, the elephant was in an advanced state of decomposition. One tusk had dropped off, and the other was reduced to a powdery stump. Its body was black from rain and soot and its eyes had sunk, beyond all natural resemblance, into the furrows and pockmarks of its large, eroded head.

- From Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama