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To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

— Anatol Rapoport

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Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1970, and appeared in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, October 1969, p. 16

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