Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore White
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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