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. . . the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

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Joseph J. Ellis

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

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[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

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Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

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Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

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Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.

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