"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party."

-- Robert Caro

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“The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender”

Source : Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)
“Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.”
“Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.”

Source : George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
“People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.”

Source : "Midterm Elections Preview on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2010.
“A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.”
“Resurrection , like politics , makes strange bedfellows.”
“If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.”
“Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.”

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