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“We arrived in sight of Alexandria,” he wrote in his diary. “How I gazed on it! It was Egypt, the land of my dreams; Egypt the most ancient of all countries! A land that was old when Rome was bright, was old when Babylon was in its glory, was old when Troy was taken! It was a sight to awaken a thousand thoughts, and it did.”
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
“That’s just the human condition, sweetheart. We’re always doomed to waste our time.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“This was green magic, visionary in nature, blending the soul of the individual with the soul of the earth.”
― Magic Lessons
― Magic Lessons
“But they seem to pop back up with every move forward, as if they’re meant to be briefly trod on and then cover the tracks of whomever has wandered into the center.”
― Recipe for Second Chances
― Recipe for Second Chances
“alcohol’s principal effect is to narrow our emotional and mental fields of vision. It creates, in their words, “a state of shortsightedness in which superficially understood, immediate aspects of experience have a disproportionate influence on behavior and emotion.” Alcohol makes the thing in the foreground even more salient and the thing in the background less significant. It makes short-term considerations loom large, and more cognitively demanding, longer-term considerations fade away.”
― Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
― Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
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