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One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.


Tom Paulin

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TOM WAITS Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-perce...
TOM SHALES The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou...
TOM ALLEN It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD