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"amazing to me that Sara Stevenson could have understood the hubris of imperial speculators so insightfully. Substitute Iraq for Mexico and 1864 for 2002 and there you have it. The ignorance wrought by arrogance and greed is palpable; especially that of Confederates foreseeing their defeat by the Union, but worse their wilful blindness to lessons quite apparent to Stevenson in whose parents' home they gathered." — Sep 09, 2019 06:40AM
"amazing to me that Sara Stevenson could have understood the hubris of imperial speculators so insightfully. Substitute Iraq for Mexico and 1864 for 2002 and there you have it. The ignorance wrought by arrogance and greed is palpable; especially that of Confederates foreseeing their defeat by the Union, but worse their wilful blindness to lessons quite apparent to Stevenson in whose parents' home they gathered." — Sep 09, 2019 06:40AM
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The words Alix Shulman strings across a page voice a suspension of judgment by a mind, conditioned like mine, to ignore and dismiss wonders of the world outside it. The book, taken as a whole, is very funny. I can't remember laughing so happily uncon
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
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“Nature is the art of God.”
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“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
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“Eyes must look far ahead, and thoughts be deeply pondered.
Be bold and unremitting in attack.
Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless.
Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory.”
― On Revolution: Selected Writings, 1920-1966
Be bold and unremitting in attack.
Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless.
Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory.”
― On Revolution: Selected Writings, 1920-1966
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