Lewis H Lapham Quotes

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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If a foreign country doesnt look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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The supply of government exceeds demand. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. - Lewis H Lapham Quotes

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