The cultivation — even celebration — of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
~ George Will
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#ThisAmericanOpera – Sean Duffy
20th United States Secretary of Transportation
Sean Duffy – the 20th United States Secretary of Transportation – comes to the upper reaches of the American Government by way of his time as a cast member on The Real World: Boston, Road Rules: All Stars and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons.
Secretary Duffy holds a marketing degree from Saint Mary’s University, and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law which is affiliated with Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN.
Interestingly, the Secretary of Transportaion shares an name with the fictional detective Sean Duffy in Adrian McKinty’s mystery novel series.
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
~ Blaise Pascal
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
~ Henry James
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
~ Mark Twain
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It is true that when pride releases energies and serves as a spur to achievement, it can lead to a reconciliation with the self and the attainment of genuine self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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