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“Many of us become walking self-caricatures at a certain point, and politicians can be particularly vulnerable, especially those who have maneuvered their very public lives as conspicuously as McCain. They tell and retell the same stories; things get musty. They engage in a lot of self-mythologizing,”
― This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital
― This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital
“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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