The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Eric SevareidAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 26, 1912
- Died: July 9, 1992
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Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin. (101)
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