#is

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. ↗

— Max Lerner

#his #hit #judged #makes #president

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. ↗

— Max Lerner

#insistent #life #most #off #pay

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #disappointing #disapproval #found #freedom

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. ↗

— Max Lerner

#gates #hope #into #kingdom #leads

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. ↗

— Max Lerner

#lessons #most #part #rationalizations #so-called

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ↗

— Max Lerner

#centuries #condense #excellence #greatness #hear

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#actually #anniversary #audience #class #consist

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#consistency #could #felt #fine #great