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- All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from…
- Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to…
- Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it…
- Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public…
- Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free…
- The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not…
- My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.…
- When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle