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Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.
— Rand Paul
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
— Lewis H. Lapham
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
— Lewis H. Lapham
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
— Lee Trevino
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
— Lewis H. Lapham
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.
— Lewis H. Lapham
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
— Lewis H. Lapham
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.
— Abhijit Naskar
The supply of government exceeds demand.
— Lewis H. Lapham
If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
— Lewis H. Lapham
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
— Lewis H. Lapham
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
— Lewis H. Lapham
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The leading cause of death is birth.
— Lewis H. Lapham
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
— Lewis H. Lapham
When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
— Lewis H. Lapham
Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
— Lewis H. Lapham
