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Piker7977’s Quotes

“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

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“Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

tags: argument, history, truth

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“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

tags: jack-kennedy, kennedy, lbj, lyndon-b-johnson, politics

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“You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

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