"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."

-- Henry James

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“Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.”
“Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut." We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill."”

Source : "What Republicans Must Do: Interview with Andrea Tantaros (Guest Interview)". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. January 24, 2009.
“I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.”
“Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.”
“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”
“I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.”
“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”
“We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.25

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