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Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham
American Editor
Born: Jan 8, 1935
Demand Government Illusion Leadership May True
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. Lewis H. Lapham
Leadership Character Follower Leader Alike Consists Moral Athletic Degrees Rather Both Self-Restraint Intellectual Than Effort Burdens Traits Requires Technique
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. Lewis H. Lapham
Dangerous Country Must Dressed Detroit Badly Like Look Obviously Well Foreign Foreign Country Natives Suburb Then Dallas
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? Lewis H. Lapham
Politics Few Unjust Consist Imperfect Except Deadly Does Making Quite Decisions Them Many
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. Lewis H. Lapham
Art Wealth Living Thinking Never New Without Pass Metropolitan York New York Cemetery Gallery Portraits Museum

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