"The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."

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Source : Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3

Spiro T. Agnew

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“Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.”

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“When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.”

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“When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.”
“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.”
“For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life,”
“If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.”
“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”

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