#squander

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

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#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm