Charles Krauthammer Quotes

For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.

Charles Krauthammer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018

Topics

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Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

Jimmy Breslin

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The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

John C. Maxwell

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In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Meghan Daum

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats

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Life is a work in progress.

Jeff Rich

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Simone Weil

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One can always debate questions back and forth.

Robert Bourassa

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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Michel Foucault

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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Lou Reed

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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Denis Waitley

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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Anthony Doerr

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