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Just as today no famous actress would ever appear in public without makeup, the leadership in those days would never show their faces without the Little Red Book in hand. It was their political makeup kit.
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“A true man does what he will, not what he must.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?”
― Lanny
― Lanny
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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