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Thought of the week, from a convocation speech by a senior civil servant: "As you go forward into this uncertain future, console yourself with the thought that if anything is possible, then too nothing is impossible. Isaiah Berlin famously made a distinction between the fox and the hedgehog: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”. Be a fox not a hedgehog because that one big thing the hedgehog thinks it knows may well be wrong. Intellectual consistency for its own sake is foolish. And remember too that the world is infested with hedgehogs masquerading as foxes. These mimics are particularly thick on the ground in universities and in some sections of the civil service."
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:42:58 +0000

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