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A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. George Eliot, Silas Marner I think Americans, perhaps more than other people, are impressed by what they don't understand. E.B. White, One Man's Meat In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. The United States... a spirited, improvisational sort of place that, despite its veneer of conformity, cultivated an impressive profusion of outright lunatics. Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin , her 2003 novel about a Columbine- like school massacre If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. Yogi Berra (Talking about baseball player Frank Robinson, known for big swings and crowding the plate, but there's a certain White House player, known for big swings and crowding the plate, to whom the same words can be applied.) Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
The special attraction of politics derives from the fact that it is the only occupation which allows the satisfaction of greed or vanity (or both) to be pursued in the name of public good. Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History at Harvard and National Security Council adviser on Soviet and East European affairs in the Reagan administration In Washington, you're either at the table or you're on the menu. A Prominent Lobbyist, who shall remain nameless
The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption – their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy's parade of modern media's own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won't. Daniel Henninger, columnist, the Wall Street Journal , June 6, 2018
The radicals of the upper class... they are very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel moral, and yet they don't affect their position. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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