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Quote by Herman Wouk

“A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.”

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Herman Wouk, an American author born on May 27, 1915, is renowned for his historical novels and war-themed works. His notable works include 'The Caine Mutiny' and 'The Winds of War', among others. more

“The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.”

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Author:Herman Wouk

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.”

Eye Black Stage Drama Theater Curtains Blink

Author:Herman Wouk

“When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.”

Book Poor Waste More Time

Author:James Bryce

“No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.”

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Book:The American Commonwealth

Source: The American Commonwealth

“There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.”

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Author:James Bryce

“One example is worth a thousand arguments.”

Example Thousand Argument

Author:William E. Gladstone

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