— Arthur Koestler, born in 1905
"'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.'- Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson)."
This is the opening line of "Showing Up" , the first chapter of What Happened, Hillary Clinton's new book on the election. Here are 42 reviews of this line.
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The Hon Brendan Nelson AODirector of the Australian War Memorial
Speech for the National Press Club of Australia
A HERO: Stanislav Petrov, Soviet soldier credited with saving world from nuclear war, dies at 77. “Petrov, thinking that any U.S. attack should have involved even more missiles to limit the chance of Soviet retaliation, told his Kremlin bosses the alert must have been caused by a malfunction. He persuaded Moscow not to shoot back. It was later determined that Russian satellites must have mistaken sunlight reflecting off clouds for nuclear missiles.”
And, inevitably: “Petrov’s reward? He was chastised for failing to provide proper paperwork, he said.”
The current state of the country and the current state of political and intellectual conversation depresses me in a way that it never has before. You have to understand — I’m never happy with the state of the country — that’s the inevitable fate of holding an ideological position that rarely gets any traction — I’m a classical liberal who’d like government to be dramatically smaller than it is now.
But the world today feels different. Everything feels angrier. . . .Maybe it’s paranoia but it’s been a long time since I felt the thinness of the veneer of civilization and our vulnerability to a sequence of events that might threaten not just the policy positions I might favor but the very existence of the American experiment.
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