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Clinton Rossiter

"The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power."

Source : Clinton Rossiter (1964). “Parties and Politics in America”, p.3, Cornell University Press

Clinton Rossiter

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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
“2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.”
“I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.”
“There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life”
“The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
“Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.”

Source : William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”

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