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Quote by Allan Lichtman

“The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.”

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Allan Lichtman is an American historian and professor at American University. He is renowned for his expertise in the American presidency and his creation of the '13 keys to the presidency' model. more

“My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.”

World Use Together America Interest Community Challenges Military Changed Citizens Protect Tools Threat International Strongest Worldview International Community American Power

Author:Chuck Hagel

“Let me be candid, my party is full of racists”

Party Let Me Racist Candid

Author:Lawrence Wilkerson

“If you see a good fight, get in it.”

Ifs Fighting Good Fight

Author:Vernon Johns

“I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.”

I Can Done Produce Color Sight Hearing Fugue

Author:Frantisek Kupka

“Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?”

Mean Hands Political Decision Share Minutes Offers Aids Soil Reaching Plot Portions Examination Richness Sympathetic Surveys Political Power Converting Erin

Author:Amanda McKittrick Ros

“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”

Men Humans Ideas Self Natural Institutions Destroyed Substance Wilderness Length Transformed Surroundings Utopia Starks Thesis Adjusting Implied

Book:The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation

“There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.”

States Helping Courses Natural Allowing Free Market Protective Being Me Cotton Indirect Bounty Subsidies Laissez Faire Tariffs

Book:The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation

“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.”

Humans Natural Human Beings Results Environment Fate Society Directors Mechanism Sole Natural Environment Demolition

Author:Karl Polanyi

“Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement”

Poor Constant Improvement Constant Improvement

Book:Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.”

World Should Form Plant Links Documents Viewers Richness Prompts Restoring

Author:Karl Blossfeldt

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