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The Monday Morning Memo

 

Although he was soft-spoken and highly organized,
Julius Rosenwald could never abide bureaucracy. And even though he
was highly focused and unusually attentive, Rosenwald never worried.

“Early in my business career,” he wrote, “I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.”

Quietly, Julius gave away more than 50 million dollars
during his lifetime, mostly to empower black Americans as they were struggling to recover from oppression. So liberally did Rosenwald distribute his wealth that he occasionally had to borrow money from the bank to cover his own living expenses. Receiving neither acclaim nor applause, Julius Rosenwald invisibly built dozens of YMCAs and YWCAs in America’s impoverished inner cities and provided dollar-for-dollar matching funds to construct 5,357 schools in impoverished cities across the South.

Wow.

 

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“They ought to begin wars with a course in basic training and end them with a course in basic forgetting. The trick is to learn to believe that it’s a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not true then; where Thou Shalt Not Kill and the fact that one has killed a great many men mean nothing, absolutely nothing, for now is the time to raise legitimate children, and make money, and dress properly, and be kind to one’s wife, and admire one’s boss, and learn not to worry, and think of oneself as what? “

- Tom Rath, protagonist of Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, trying to forget his first day of weapons training, a drill on the lethal use of the bayonet. (1955)

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