"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

Wisdom, Absurdity

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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

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"The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."

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"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."

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