Bite off as much as you can chew…

“Pick battles big enough to matter,

small enough to win.”

The wisdom of Jonathan Kozol (b1936)

Public education activist, keen thinker

This quote from Jonathan Kozol is a strategic, actionable version of similar quotations from historic writers:

Voltaire: “The best is the enemy of the good.”

Confucius: “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

Shakespeare: “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”

This is wisdom indeed for those of us who strive to make things better in the political arena that threatens us today.

I’m convinced that it’s worse than foolish to support or vote for a fringe or “outsider” candidate who has sparkling, pure principles and no chance in hell of winning. If you have to, hold your nose in the primary election and vote for the Democrat or Republican of your choice who can actually win the election.

Voting for a more or less surefire loser as a matter of principle—except in the general election—is just like throwing your vote away, and letting everyone else choose the winner.

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Book review: Ethan Frome

not being satisfied with less…

by Edith Wharton

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