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The problem in these cases is that fundamentally it is all just a matter of degree: How much partisanship is too much partisanship.


Nathaniel Persily

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ARTHUR MILLER They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue.
ED ABLESER It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
DAVID SOUTER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is ...
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Maybe it tames the partisanship a little bit.
MARC WILSON Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
CORY BOOKER Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
GARY HERBERT I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
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J.R. RIM Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
AMELIA BARR It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and com...
RALPH MARSTON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, e...
VICTORIA AVEYARD The problem is it's just created a much too big of an organization, much too difficult to manage, mu...
MICHAEL CUSUMANO The too LESS is too MUCH if you know how to make it too MUCH; the too MUCH is too LESS if you don’...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES People are choosing performance over partisanship.
ADAM GOODMAN Mrs. Bush certainly has an appeal that transcends partisanship.
TRACEY SCHMITT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a hear...
E.P. SHELKY When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
DAN SIMMONS The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
RONALD REAGAN Yes, I think he has shown some partisanship. But basically, I think his sense of what's fair overrid...
LORRAINE SHINN When love is deep, much can be accomplished.
SHINICHI SUZUKI I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally...
ANNE WOJCICKI It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides ...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET blatant partisanship to use the Elections Division to their advantage.
SCOTT MADDOX When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparen...
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stu...
TERRY EAGLETON It would be incredibly naive to say that it was Bill Clinton who brought partisanship to Washington.
MARK MELLMAN We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that...
MICHAEL CRAPO You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
PHAEDRUS If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both ca...
OSCAR WILDE To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.
CHRIS GIBSON People don't always realize how much we can help in these cases.
JOSH YOUNG Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI It is pretty clear that we can break $70 without too much problem.
DEBORAH WHITE See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and part...
CHARLIE COOK It's just a matter of getting that big hit. We just haven't done it in the clutch, and that's what t...
BRAD WILKERSON For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter?
WILLIAM SHAKESPERE I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on...
ROB PORTMAN This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how...
PETER BONDRA Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwu...
ISAAC HILL BROMLEY I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
GARY COLE Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS We are aware of the serious terrorist problem in the region but it is a much wider problem than just...
KRISZTINA NAGY There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem wi...
JOHN PAUL II It's partisanship rearing its ugly head. It says to me that some people are worried that this govern...
J. LOWELL STOLTZFUS Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, th...
NICK HORNBY The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
JOSH LANYON All our evidence indicates that the current fishing pressure on these stocks is much too high.
DAVID GRIFFITH I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing i...
GREGORY BENFORD Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the bo...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resis...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly n...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK War between Old England and the Bostonians is expected according to all reports we can hear. Various...
NATHANIEL SMITH How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom ...
NATHANIEL SMITH What idea can be formed from the description of these people or what credit can be given to their st...
NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I...
NATHANIEL SMITH The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will st...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM