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“...that, I suppose, was the part of politics that would always give me the most pleasure: the part that couldn't be diagrammed, that defied planning or analytics. The way in which, when it works, a campaign - and by extension a democracy - proved to be a chorus rather than a solo act.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“The most effective debate answers, it seemed, were designed not to illuminate but to evoke an emotion, or identify the enemy, or signal to a constituency that you, more than anyone else on that stage, were and would always be on their side.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”
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“The near enemy. It’s a psychological concept. Two emotions that look the same but are actually opposites. The one parades as the other, is mistaken for the other, but one is healthy and the other’s sick, twisted.”
― The Cruelest Month
― The Cruelest Month
“Discord in our thoughts, ideas and compel us to think, re-evaluate and criticize.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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