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Next, Cohn repeated what everyone was saying: Interest rates were going to go up over the foreseeable future. I agree, Trump said. “We should just go borrow a lot of money right now, hold it, and then sell it and make money.” Cohn was
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“It had been there plain as day before me, but my attention had been distracted by a far more dramatic, impressive crevice that turned out to be nothing but a dry run. Funny how that works in life, both with places and with people.”
― Out There: Essays on the Lower Big Bend
― Out There: Essays on the Lower Big Bend
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
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“The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or “victory disease”—a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its symptoms were overconfidence, a failure to weigh risks properly, and a basic misunderstanding of the enemy.”
― Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
― Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
“Donald Trump is not a religious man—that’s no secret to anyone. He viewed the faith community as a political constituency.”
― Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
― Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
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