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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.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning read more
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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 wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been read more
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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.
