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“Future Politics
Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press forth with hard questions, providing statistics and solutions. Direct-to-voter referendums became an increasingly common way of effecting national policy. If Congress were deadlocked over a particular issue, the voters would be asked to make up their minds for them in the form of an online referendum.”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press forth with hard questions, providing statistics and solutions. Direct-to-voter referendums became an increasingly common way of effecting national policy. If Congress were deadlocked over a particular issue, the voters would be asked to make up their minds for them in the form of an online referendum.”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
“...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed...”
― Pnin
― Pnin
“To catch a wild animal, you have to use the right bait.
What happens to the bait? I haven't decided yet.”
― The Last Sunset
What happens to the bait? I haven't decided yet.”
― The Last Sunset
“Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. “I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can.”
[…]
“I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.
I thought I could.
I thought I could.
I thought I could.”
― The Little Engine That Could
[…]
“I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.
I thought I could.
I thought I could.
I thought I could.”
― The Little Engine That Could
“Tears will do you no good.”
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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