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“You understand that you are being manipulated by others and you become overwhelmed by hospital bureaucracy. It feels as though you have been violated by administrators who have robbed you of your passion for helping children. That passion that drove you to become a healthcare provider is replaced with mistrust, negativity, and hopeless skepticism.”
― Burned Out
― Burned Out
“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Is becoming wise an act of knowledge? For Nietzsche, the greatest thoughts were the greatest actions. Thinking in and through metaphors, Shakespeare gives us persons who act with titanic self-destructiveness, incarnate sublimity:”
― The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
― The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
“I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
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