“It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.” NeedsPersonsArtPhilosophyTodayPastNationsDealsHistoryResourcesSevenThese DaysSageGreeceSingle PersonTimes Past Author:Baltasar Gracian
“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” MenDealsHistoryMilitaryCircumstancesOrdinaryExtraordinaryNavyTrue HappinessOrdinary Man Author:William Halsey
“When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.” WantDoePastSpeakParentDealsHistoryAngelNeighborPastor Book:Works Source: Works
“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.” LooksEndsRealityFacesChoicesPoliticsWaitingCommunityJusticeMoneyDealsEducationPovertyHistoryGenerationsFrontsHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsStrategyPrisonInvestingIdeologyJailTailsEqual RightsInfancyPathologyFood Stamps Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.” MenDealsHistoryKingsProphetCaptains Author:H. L. Mencken
“To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.” WorldHas BeensIdeasWarCoursesFoundLostAnswersDealsHistoryMilitaryGreatnessFailureExcellenceWar Of The WorldsLiberalismWorld War IiWorld War IJungleFrontiersCubaBerlinNew DealGreat SocietyNew FrontiersIndochina Author:George McGovern