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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)

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Milne, A. A. - War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940) | WIST Quotations

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Word Nerd Gabi Lorino Aug 10, 2025

Here we are again for another #journalprompt and maybe you're aware of this: it's Mercury Retrograde season!
It's a time to slow down and re-do, reconsider, reconstruct the things in your life that maybe aren't working to their full potential.

Today or this week. think or write about the do-overs you'd like to have, the things you need to review or reconsider, or maybe revisit an old friend or an old book.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 29, 2025

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Reconsider,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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JB aka J Lee Jun 5, 2025

#GAO denies #reconsideration request, finding no merit in repeated arguments against Air Force auditorium tech award. https://washingtonhorizon.com/mission-analytics-llc-reconsideration-b-423198-2/

Mission Analytics, LLC--Reconsideration (B-423198.2)

You should not care. Category: Reconsideration Date: 30 May 2025 URL: https://www.gao.gov/assets/880/878188.pdf Case overview: Mission Analytics, LLC, sought reconsideration of GAO's earlier decision denying its protest of an Air Force contract award to ThunderCat Technology, LLC, for technology upgrades to an auditorium at

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WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 4, 2024

A quotation from Herbert, George:

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He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

[He thinks not well, that thinks not again.]
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https://wist.info/herbert-george/72415/

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Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 836 (1640 ed.) - Herbert, George | WIST Quotations Quotations

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. [He thinks not well, that thinks not again.]

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WIST Quotations moves again!Mar 26, 2024

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
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https://wist.info/mencken-hl/68140/

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A Little Book in C Major, ch. 5, § 30 (1916) - Mencken, H. L. | WIST Quotations

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. Variant: FIRMNESS: A form of stupidity: proof of an inability to think the same thing out twice. [A Book of Burlesques, "The Jazz Webster" (1924)]

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 8, 2023

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

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I hav lived in this world jist long enuff tew look karefully the seckond time into things that i am the most certain ov the fust time.
[I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.]
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https://wist.info/billings-josh/61106/

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John Earle Mar 26, 2023

Ending the Work Capability Assessment means the end of its good features too | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/03/26/ending-the-work-capability-assessment-means-the-end-of-its-good-features-too/

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Ending the Work Capability Assessment means the end of its good features too

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s announcement – that the Work Capability Assessment for people claiming long-term sickness benefits is ending – provoked a strong knee-jerk reaction from m…

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Poetry News Jan 3, 2023

Football’s violent show
Watching with blind eye and heart
A reconsideration.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/sports/football/nfl-broadcast-fans.html

We’re All Complicit in the N.F.L.’s Violent Spectacle

The appetite for football has never been higher, even as viewers look past the toll the sport takes on players’ lives. Damar Hamlin’s collapse during a prime-time game should force a reconsideration.

Simple Dictionary Bot Jun 6, 2021

#Reconsideration - The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.