Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
Love, too, has to be learned.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Michel De Montaigne
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
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Sarah Dessen
One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.
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Richelle E. Goodrich
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Voltaire
More Quotes By Robert Dallek
The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
