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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever read more
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great read more
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the read more
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
