"There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship."

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Source : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

J. Christopher Herold

#Program Quotes #Prelude Quotes #Dictatorship Quotes

“It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.”
“That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.”
“There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.”
“â€¦[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you canâ€™t avoid that.”
“One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.”
“Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.”
“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”
“I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.”

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