"No real-world human being brings to the U.S.……" — James Fallows
"No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
— Aristotle
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love,…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,…
— Joseph Addison
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount…
— Jo Brand
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
— John Calvin
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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
— Graydon Carter
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie
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