“Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.”
― John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
― John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
“We are well-armed for battle in a Machiavellian world of reputation manipulation, and one of our most important weapons is the delusion that we are non-combatants.”
― The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
― The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Complex and original people know that truth is rarely simple, almost never all of this or all of that, but elusive minglings and mixtures, evolving shapes, with tinctures of irony and paradox.”
― Boone: A Biography
― Boone: A Biography
“It was by ignoring men, and ignoring all small causes, but by closely calculating the tendencies of events and the great forces which were producing logical results.”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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