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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Lewis H. Lapham
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: January 8
Journalist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Lewis Henry Lapham
Lewis Lapham
Disowned
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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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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
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Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.
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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
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The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
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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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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
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