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Perhaps its time to heed the advice of the illustrious Christine Lagarde:

  “Il faut cesser de penser et se retrousser les manches.”

  (Roughly translated: "We must stop thinking and roll up our sleeves.")

  In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine
  Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon their 
  “old national habit.”

  “France is a country that thinks,” she told the National Assembly.
  “There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory.
   We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to 
   come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, 
   already. Roll up your sleeves.”
Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/world/europe/22france.html...



Indeed, it's a very good advice and I totally agree with her statement and no doubt it must be true. But I can tell you, people I know are really too busy living their life and for instance I'm myself too busy coding or doing other stuffs to really have time to over-think about our expected downfall.




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