Quote by Saul Bellow
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a h

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

Other quotes by Saul Bellow

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

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America
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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Writing
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Other Quotes from
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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Presidents Day

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

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Presidents Day

Random Quotes

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh

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Love

Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it. – Mishkat Al-masabih

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Forgiveness

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. – Orson Welles

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Art

Surely these women wont lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. – Rose Schneiderman

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Beauty