"Politics is history in the present tense."

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Source : "John Avlon and Margaret Hoover, Political pundits". Landon Lecture, www.k-state.edu. April 15, 2016.

John Avlon

“We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.”
“I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.”
“Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.405, Westminster John Knox Press
“love has a very dulling effect on the brain”
“Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”

Source : "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.
“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.”
“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”

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