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“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“the English writer G. K. Chesterton wondered what the big boats foretold of a nation’s fabric. “The poor man really has a stake in the country,” he wrote. “The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.”
― The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
― The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
“we are servants of the zeitgeist.”
― Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road – The Epic Oral History of an Oscar-Winning Masterpiece
― Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road – The Epic Oral History of an Oscar-Winning Masterpiece
“Keep it simple. Rhyming’s good (“For Jimmy and me, vote ‘yes’ on 3”). Never explain anything. “The more you have to explain,” Whitaker said, “the more difficult it is to win support.” Say the same thing over and over again. “We assume we have to get a voter’s attention seven times to make a sale,” Whitaker said. Subtlety is your enemy. “Words that lean on the mind are no good,” according to Baxter. “They must dent it.” Simplify, simplify, simplify. “A wall goes up,” Whitaker warned, “when you try to make Mr. and Mrs. Average American Citizen work or think.”85”
― These Truths: A History of the United States
― These Truths: A History of the United States
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