36 ordspråk av Theodore H. White
Theodore H. White
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.
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All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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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.
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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.
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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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I class myself as a manual laborer.
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.
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