Lee Atwater quotes
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“I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.”
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“My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.”
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“Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.”
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“Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.”
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“It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.”
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“I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”
-- Lee AtwaterSource : Life Interview, January 1991.
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“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.”
-- Lee AtwaterSource : Life Interview, January 1991.
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“My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.”
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“I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.”
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Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK
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“Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.”
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