"Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest."

-- Sean Wilentz

#Winning Quotes #Political Quotes #Winning And Losing Quotes

“Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.”
“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”
“I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.”
“Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.”
“I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.”
“Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.”
“Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.”
“Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.”

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