"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives"

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Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Aug 26, 2011

Robert Caro

#Men Quotes #Political Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.”
“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.”
“The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.”
“One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively weâ€™ll move toward it.”
“Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.”
“The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.”

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