Jacob Weisberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.
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Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.
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Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.
-- Jacob Weisberg
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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