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Old 03-24-2020, 10:07 AM   #6
Carruthers
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Originally Posted by Griff View Post
Is this our moment? Telecommuting, social isolation, and a growth of quiet reason over rhetoric, can it be that the world so dominated by extrovert's bullshit and bluster could edge toward calm, quiet competence?
Gilbert and Sullivan were on to something in 1889:

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In a contemplative fashion,

And a tranquil frame of mind,

Free from every kind of passion,

Some solution let us find.

Let us grasp the situation,

Solve the complicated plot –

Quiet, calm deliberation

Disentangles every knot.
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