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Thomas Mann

There were profound reasons fo...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creat

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Thomas Mann

Even in a personal sense, afte...

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

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Thomas Mann

Nothing is stranger or more ti...

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

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Thomas Mann

What our age needs, what it d...

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, isЂ'terror.

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Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, i...

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

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Thomas Mann

Responsibility for overseeing ...

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

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Thomas Mann

All of this suggests that whil...

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

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Thomas Mann

In addition to the decline in ...

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

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Thomas Mann

The observations and encounter...

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

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Thomas Mann

And then the sly arch-lover th...

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

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Thomas Mann

You ask what is the use of cla...

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

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Thomas Mann

We are not separate and indepe...

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

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Thomas Mann

Science never makes an advance...

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

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Thomas Mann

America is an outlier in the w...

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

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Thomas Mann

If the years of youth are expe...

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of timeЂ'and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air..

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Thomas Mann

Distance in a straight line ha...

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

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Thomas Mann

In the House, Republican prosp...

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

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Thomas Mann

Is not life in itself a thing ...

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

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Thomas Mann

(T)here was a story they used ...

(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

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Thomas Mann

A healthy degree of party unit...

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

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