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Book cover for The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs—and Who Will Take It
Most modern pundits’ understandings of politics were shaped during a time of Republican dominance of presidential elections and Democratic dominance of Congress. Those who took political science classes had this view reinforced when their ...more
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Anthony Trollope
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
Anthony Trollope

Matt Ridley
“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race”
Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Antony Beevor
“History is never tidy.”
Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Ian Fleming
“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”
Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

Winston S. Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Winston S. Churchill

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