"One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and is suspected of using even violence, cracked down on civil society, ruling with an iron fist within Russia. To look with admiration on that sort of domestic leadership, I think is just really inconsistent with American values."

-- Philip Gordon

#Thinking Quotes #Leader Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge
“The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.”

Source : Allegra Goodman (2011). “The Cookbook Collector”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.”
“To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.”
“Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™s like the others, who look only at the surface. Letâ€™s hope sheâ€™d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.”
“People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.”

Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223
“The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.”
“We don't invent our missions, we detect them.”

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