The forerunners of the modern lobbyist were Tommy “The Cork” Corcoran, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brain trust, and Clark Clifford, who ran President Harry Truman’s poker games.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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The more obsessed with personal identity campus liberals become, the less willing they become to engage in reasoned political debate.
~ Mark Lilla
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The image of Trump, bloody with a raised fist, is destined to adorn T-shirts, magazine covers, full-page spreads in history books, campaign ads. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the photo is nearly perfect, one that was captured under extreme duress and that distills the essence of a man in all his contradictions.
~ Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic
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Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:
~ John le Carré
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Queen Elizabeth II was formal, interested, uncomplaining, and always respectful. Her warehouse’s worth of matching coats and whimsical hats were an aspect of that respect. It didn’t matter if she had arrived for a tour of your rat-extermination business in Manchester; she was dressed as if attending a new exhibit at the National Gallery.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy [but] the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded … on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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