"It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others."

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Source : "Making Presidential History". Live chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

David Greenberg

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“You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.”
“If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.”
“My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.”
“If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.”

Source : "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". The Insurance Journal Interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.
“In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.”
“Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.”
“You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.”

Source : Inside the Company (1975). Agee has long had that problem.
“A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!”

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