"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."

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Source : "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

Fawn M. Brodie

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“Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween , possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. ... [W]ith the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. ... In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended - Directed By Joe Chappelle.”

Source : "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
“The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2008). “Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories”, p.61, Hachette UK
“You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.”
“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
“My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.”
“I owe my career to Paul Heyman.”
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.”

Source : "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast on peikoff.com, June 28, 2010.

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