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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#bad news #entirely #fault #gets #good

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#either #four #franklin #good #here

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. ↗

— George H. Mead

#experience #individual #phases #psychological #psychology

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affinity #always #anything #around #attribute

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american #american dream #best #class #cultural

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. ↗

— George H. Mead

#multiple #normal #personality #sense

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#children #depends #grow #grow up #how