Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs.
~ Dean Acheson
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.
~ Anton Chekhov
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