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“He had convinced himself of a ‘truth’, mostly because it was able to be seen. To see something meant that it was probable, and to consider something probable meant that it was believable.”

Book:Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

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“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”

Truth Time History Power United States Democracy Crisis Russia Britain Cold War Soviet Union Imperialism Elections British Empire American Imperialism Winston Churchill Conservative Party Uk

Book:Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“And he told me that anything more than twelve minutes of personal pain was self-indulgence, which did more to jerk me out of the state of complete numbness I was in than anything else could have done”

Self Reflection Self Pity Self Indulgence Get It Together

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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