I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
~ A. J. Liebling
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When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Celebrity culture has taken a great deal from our country and our world, but the upside — at least in theory — is that it allows people to dream big.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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A lot of things I do in life, I do as an experiment. I mean, I do it out of human interest — just to see who’s loyal, who’s not loyal.
~ Donald Trump via The New York Times
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Donald Trump gave me hours of his time, often extending our scheduled meetings at Trump Tower as we watched clips of the show together. I discerned that, in many ways, he sees his runs for president and his time in the White House as extensions of his reality show. In our conversations, he seemed engrossed by his image and the minutiae of his TV career, far more than by anything he achieved as leader of the free world.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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There is no way to reasonably interview Trump as a politician. He’s not a politician. There’s no way to ask him about governing. He’s not able to govern.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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Donald Trump is always governing for the cameras — his favorite constituency. Viewed through that lens, his veepstakes make much more sense. The process is playing out in public, with unvarnished careerism on view, in the familiar form of a reality show.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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The sea with its charms saddens me. In its joyful moods, it makes me think of the laughing tiger; in its sad moods it recalls the crocodile’s tears, and in its roaring fury, the caged monster that cannot swallow me up.
~ Gustave Courbet
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