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A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Thomas E. Mann

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Thomas E. Mann

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Thomas E. Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Thomas E. Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Thomas E. Mann

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas E. Mann

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

Thomas E. Mann

Thomas E. Mann

Thomas E. Mann

Born: September 10, 1944 (age 82)

Bio: Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Known for:

It's Even Worse Than It Looks (2012)
The Broken Branch (2006)
The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook (2005)
Media Polls in American Politics (1992)

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