A quotation from John Adams

While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a Stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than 3 or 4 thousand years ago. What is the Reason? I say Parties and Factions will not Suffer, or permit Improvements to be made. As Soon as one Man hints at an improvement his Rival opposes it. No sooner has one Party discovered or invented an Amelioration of the condition of Man or the order of Society, than the opposite Party, belies it, misconstrues it, misrepresents it, ridicules it, insults it, and persecutes it.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1813-07-09) to Thomas Jefferson

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

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في خطوة تعكس فجوة حقيقية تركها إلغاء طور Factions الذي أحزن عشاق اللعبة، أعلن مطور مستقل عن لعبة جديدة باسم Terminal War، تهدف لإحياء تجربة اللعب الجماعي التكتيكي التي اشتهرت بها سلسلة The Last of Us. لكن هذه المرة، فإن المشروع يمتلك رؤية مختلفة خاصة به، وبإمكانات محدودة مقارنة بإنتاجات استديو التطوير Naughty Dog. المطور … #Games #ألعاب # #Factions #Factions2 #TerminalWar #TheLastOfUs2

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في خطوة تعكس فجوة حقيقية تركها إلغاء طور Factions الذي أحزن عشاق اللعبة، أعلن مطور مستقل عن لعبة جديدة باسم Terminal War، تهدف لإحياء تجربة اللعب الجماعي التكتيكي التي اشتهرت بها سلسلة The Last of Us. لكن هذه المرة، فإن المشروع يمتلك رؤية مختلفة خاصة به، وبإمكانات محدودة مقارنة بإنتاجات استديو التطوير Naughty Dog. المطور … #Games #ألعاب # #Factions #Factions2 #TerminalWar #TheLastOfUs2

Terminal War بديل The Last of Us 2 أونلاين؟ مطور يحاول إحياء تجربة Factions VGA4A - اخبار العاب الفيديو
في خطوة تعكس فجوة حقيقية تركها إلغاء طور Factions الذي أحزن عشاق اللعبة، أعلن مطور مستقل عن لعبة جديدة باسم Terminal War، تهدف لإحياء تجربة اللعب الجماعي التكتيكي التي اشتهرت بها سلسلة The Last of Us. لكن هذه المرة، فإن المشروع يمتلك رؤية مختلفة خاصة به، وبإمكانات محدودة مقارنة بإنتاجات استديو التطوير Naughty Dog. المطور … #Games #ألعاب # #Factions #Factions2 #TerminalWar #TheLastOfUs2

Jürgen Hardt, the foreign‑policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, warned of an increased threat from supporters of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. He... https://news.osna.fm/?p=36510 | #news #amid #factions #germany #guard

🗣️ Why do we keep talking past each other? What if dialogue and education aren't the issue?
https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/09/why-just-think-critically-keeps-failing/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essay
What if the other side doesn't have a critical thinking deficit or a problem seeing facts? I've been wittering on about this for months.
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