“Människorna är oändligt glada om man lämnar dem i den situationen att de inte kan förverkliga sina idéer!”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
“The couples learn to distrust what’s said about them in the media and to turn inward toward each other in times of crisis. Dina Matos McGreevey, former wife of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey wrote, “Yes, I’d once or twice heard the rumor that Jim was gay, but I dismissed it just as I dismissed many other stories, most of which I knew not to be true.”
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the war, or maybe, just maybe, the smaller people in his life, his family.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“We broadcast from coast to coast every utterance of Hitler, but the German people are not permitted to know a word of what Roosevelt speaks.”
― Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
― Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
“increasingly weak. Then, half a century after Lord Macartney’s failed mission, the closed door was pushed ajar by Britain through the Opium”
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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