"Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media."

-- Leon Wieseltier

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“I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.”
“Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.”
“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”
“Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.”
“Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ...”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.10, Open Road Media
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous areâ€¦the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”
“I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff. I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.”
“I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin

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