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When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals…
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Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance…
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Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb…
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue -…
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.
— Wayne Dyer
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Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,…
— Karen Maitland
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
— Barbara Hepworth
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Be not the slave of your own past.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for…
— Jay Kesler
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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
— Agatha Christie
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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a…
— Geoffrey Barraclough
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We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their…
— Ron Chernow
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