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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence. A. Scott Berg

Man Eminence He Dean End Very American Sam Hollywood Producers Serious Gray

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda. A. Scott Berg

Political Important White White House Think Enough Possible Advance Idealism Know House Readers Still Intellectually Agenda Bring

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. Alexis de Tocqueville

Men First Important Own Nothing Manners Living Society Everything Sight Seems More Except Outward Than Human Human Actions Store Form Which Used Less Actions Grow Set

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Alexis de Tocqueville

Invent Revolution Difficult Part Most End Novel

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. Alexis de Tocqueville

People Power Press Only Second

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism. Alistair Horne

Broken Better Nation Relations Collapsed Magnanimity Never Towards Gorbachev Reagan Were Soviet Thatcher Soviet Union Union Displayed

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed. Amanda Foreman

Good Family Obedience Son Women Wife Husband Ambition Extra Other Herself Diligence Must No Desire No Interest Chastity Never Good Wife Emphasis Beyond She Than Interest Placed Meaning Produce Should Serve Among Her Things Desire Widowed

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Anita Brookner

Truth Blame Telling Telling The Truth Attach Does Should

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. Anita Brookner

Time Writing Market Tortoise No Time Read Contention

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Arnold J. Toynbee

History Civilization Voyage Condition Movement Harbor

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Life Courage Vision Mind Matters Own Our Everything Moral Must Rarely Individual Ideas Himself His Intellectual Survive Begins Committees Room To Survive Confronting Produced Conscience Things

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Long Anti-Semitism Been Businessman

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson

Today You Consistency Year Were Requires Ignorant

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Brooks Adams

Politics Organization Practice Whatever Systematic Always Been Profession

Early youth is a baffling time. Bruce Catton

Time Youth Baffling Early

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. C. Northcote Parkinson

Better Has-Been Than

Let us banish fear. Carter G. Woodson

Fear Banish Us Let Us

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