Carlo Wolff Quotes
An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
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Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
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An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.
