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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
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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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