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The First Step In Solving A Problem Is Admitting There Is A Problem To Be Solved.

A Productive Mistake Is: (1) Made In The Service Of Mission And Vision; (2) Acknowledged As A Mistake; (3) Learned From; (4) Considered Valuable; (5) Shared For The Benefit Of All.

If There's A World Here In A Hundred Years, It's Going To Be Saved By Tens Of Millions Of Little Things. The Powers-that-be Can Break Up Any Big Thing They Want. They Can Corrupt It Or Co-opt It From The Inside, Or They Can Attack It From The Outside. But What Are They Going To Do About 10 Million Little Things? They Break Up Two Of Them, And Three More Like Them Spring Up!

Any Idiot Can Be Complicated. It Takes A Genius To Be Simple.

I Learned By Transcribing Songs Out Of The Library Of Congress Collection In Washington Where I Was Working. I Got A Job When I Just Turned Twenty In 1939 And Alan [lomax] Needed Some Help. I Listened To Hundreds Of Records Every Week.