"The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America."

-- Russ Feingold

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“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
“Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION”
“Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.”
“Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion.”
“A story is told as much by silence as by speech.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.118, Open Road Media
“I don't need equal time, I am equal time!”
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.40, Atlantic Monthly Press

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