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Eric Liu Quotes

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

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Today Past Government Understanding

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Family Children I Am Away Tortured

Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.

John C. Calhoun

Wise Consistency Acting Circumstances

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

Trying Always Audience Content Bring

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Aspire Sense Some Earnestly

When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.

Justice School Law Learn Equal

Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

Funny Change Long Movies Nothing

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Yourself School Thought Help You

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.

Life Home Great Curious Paris Bored

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

Responsibility People Society Believe

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Good Myself Me Think Pressure Push

I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.

Christopher Denham

Funny Wife Doctor Black Stand Want

Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.

Intelligence War American Information

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