"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."

-- Thomas E. Mann

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“The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.”
“If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”
“There is no shortcut to achievement.”
“What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?”
“Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.”
“Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.”
“We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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