Thoughts to Ponder for October 18, 2014
"-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American psychiatrist
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"The trouble is that the stupid people--who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations--do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper." -- Mark Twain, "License of the Press," speech, 1873
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. ~Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope