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Lewis H. Lapham has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours…
— David Attenborough
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure…
— Joseph Brodsky
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They…
— Barack Obama
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling…
— Alistair Cooke
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not…
— C.S. Lewis
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and…
— Tony Robbins
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully…
— Sri Chinmoy
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
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