"Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if you haven't had a deep crisis for a while, you feel like you have the luxury of going on your own way."

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“The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.”
“Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.”
“America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.”
“When you're through changing, you're through.”
“Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.217
“To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.”
“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”
“If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.”

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