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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Lewis H. Lapham
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: January 8
Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
Lewis Henry Lapham
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
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The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.
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Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.
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Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
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The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
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When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
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The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will
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People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
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His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.
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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
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Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
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