"Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous."

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Source : Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.173, Macmillan

Dick Cavett

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“When you come from a family of ten children you learn very early on in life to stand up for yourself and hold your ground regarding the things you're passionate about.”
“I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and democratic country but it is only a show. We are losing the effectiveness of democratic institutions like parliament and judiciary. They now are turning into tools for the benefit of a president-ordering system. A democratic government is possible only on a comprehensive democratic base surrounded by the participatory action of ordinary people.”
“An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.”
“Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.”
“The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.82, Routledge
“Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

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