“ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them — this is of the essence of leadership. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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