"History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions."

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Source : Comparing the presidential styles of Richard Nixon and George W Bush. Quoted in Worse than Watergate (2004).

John Dean

#Doe Quotes #Impression Quotes

“Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.”
“I've always believed in survival.”
“Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.”
“The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State.”
“The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.”
“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”
“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.”
“I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.”

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