“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.” MenLittlesMomentsCoursesIndividualUnitedGeniusOrdinaryFlowRiversUniversalOriginalsContinuityComprehensionBrooksMultiplicityAfarOrdinary ManVibrateDiscrete Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.” IfsMenWorldAgeUnitedFiveGeniusSixX Men Author:Jonathan Swift