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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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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow

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Oppression
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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Presidents Day
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. – John F. Kennedy

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Presidents Day

George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history. – Orestes Ferrara

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Presidents Day

Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Presidents Day

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Presidents Day

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Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. – Margaret Fuller

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Experience

Ferryman, for tea, scoop up those reflections of cherry blossoms. – Sakai Hōitsu

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Tea

Im sick to death of people saying weve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, weve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. – Angus Young

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Death

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla

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Future