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“In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.”
― Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”
― Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again