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While Republican voters have r...

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

With the parties at virtual pa...

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

Congress requires states to dr...

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

But presidential approval also...

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

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Art is the funnel, as it were,...

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

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This was love at first sight, ...

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

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Thought that can merge wholly ...

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

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First, his job approval rating...

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

What pleases the public is liv...

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

There is only one real misfort...

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

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Yes, they are carnal, both of ...

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

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The accouterments of life were...

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve Ђ' confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

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The books and magazines stream...

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

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The increase in straight-ticke...

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

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He thought what a fine thing i...

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings Ђ' probably even on polar expeditions.

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We do not fear being called me...

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

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Forbearance in the face of fat...

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

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In books we never find anythin...

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

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Tolerance becomes a crime when...

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

He probably was mediocre after...

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

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