"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

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Source : "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

John W. Gardner

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“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
“Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.”
“I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.”
“I deeply care about what the fans think.”

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“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.37, Vintage
“What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.”

Source : Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.14, Harper Collins
“Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.”
“The Monstrous Regiment of Women.”

Source : Title of Pamphlet (1558)

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