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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

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There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Fawn M. Brodie

Fawn M. Brodie

Born: September 15, 1915
Died: January 10, 1981 (aged 65)
Bio: Fawn McKay Brodie was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA.
Known for:
  1. No Man Knows My History (1945)
  2. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)
  3. The Devil Drives (1967)
  4. Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (1981)
  5. Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959)

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