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Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.


Timothy D. Snyder

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TIMOTHY NOAH In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an...
TIMOTHY HUTTON Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
TIMOTHY NOAH It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - ...
TIMOTHY SPALL Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
TIMOTHY NOAH An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in pr...
TIMOTHY NOAH When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. S...
TIMOTHY WEST I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of hous...
TIMOTHY WEST With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be r...
TIMOTHY HUTTON Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick...
TIMOTHY ZAHN When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich...
TIMOTHY NOAH In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to m...
TIMOTHY NOAH You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
TIMOTHY LEARY The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
TIMOTHY NOAH If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
TIMOTHY NOAH Yeah, it was a little slick. But some of these guys when they put helmets on turn into idiots, too.
TIMOTHY PETERS To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America he...
TIMOTHY NOAH I was always insecure about the way I looked.
TIMOTHY SPALL I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
TIMOTHY SPALL I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matt...
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