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I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

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

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

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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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