Rick Perlstein Quotes
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.
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He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
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We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so.
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Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
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What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.
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I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.
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The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
