"The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence."

-- Thomas A. Bailey

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“Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do”
“One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.45, Basic Books
“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”
“I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.”
“Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.”
“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”
“I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.”
“There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to dieâ€”that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.”

Source : ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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