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Card #c1476IR // #c1476Verbatim excerpt
We have it in our power to begin the world over again

— Source: Common Sense (Thomas Paine)

[Use when]

A rare opening appears: a market shifts, a leader resigns, a budget opens. Name the deadline and draft the new rules before normal returns.

[Why it matters]

Rare moments let a people rewrite the rules instead of inheriting them. He treats the moment as a deadline, not a mood.

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