Silence is the mother of Truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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The fact of the matter is that it is not John Ziegler’s job to be responsible, or nuanced, or to think about whether his on-air comments are productive or dangerous, or cogent, or even defensible. That is not to say that the host would not defend his “we’re better”—strenuously—or that he does not believe it’s true. It is to say that he has exactly one on-air job, and that is to be stimulating.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The strange thing is that it’s always in Europe that dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up, yet it’s always America that is “fascist”.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Politics is not an exact science.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary.
~ Janet Malcolm
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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