"All parties attempt to represent important things..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.
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“If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!”
“Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.”
“There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated”
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“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.”
“The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation”
“For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”
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“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.”
“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”
“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”