Theodore White Quotes - Page 2

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• If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

  Theodore White

  Years, History, Luck

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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.

  Theodore White

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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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 White

  Years, Cities, Two

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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.

  Theodore White

  Ghetto, Reality, Men

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• Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

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  America, Political, Politics

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• You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

  Theodore White

  Thanksgiving, Generosity, Giving

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• It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

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  Father, White, Nannies

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• Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

  Theodore White

  Long, Political, Too Late

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• The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

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  Jobs, Ideas, Come Up

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• Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

  Theodore White

  Power, Men, Dignity

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

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  Dream, 4th Of July, Adventure

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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 White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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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 White

  Cat, World, Tickling

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