"We cannot simply `decide' or `choose' to accomplish an enterprise that makes a large demand for time, because it will inevitably conflict with other interests and ambitions. [...]So how can any long-range plan succeed? [...] We may need some way to make changes that won't let us change ourselves back again. I suspect that, in order to commit ourselves to our largest, most ambitious plans, we learn to exploit agencies that operate on larger spans of time."
Some agencies operate over a short time span, while others operate over a very long one. Does this imply that our character is defined by our slowest-changing agencies?
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