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Jacob Weisberg Quotes

American - Journalist | 1964 -

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.

Love Hope Children Grow Literature

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

Good Writing Book Run Way Years

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

Change Political Long Assumptions

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

Faith Politics Religion Values Rare

Closely allied to the assumption that Democrats can't win because they're too secular is the view that they can't win if they're too liberal. This assumption has steered Hillary Clinton toward the center, following her husband. I tend to share this view myself.

Myself Win Husband View Democrats

Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.

Internet Gambling Bad Because Chosen

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

Evil Investment Conservative Position

Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.

Book Waves Risk Capture First High

Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find - at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers - unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.

Book Internet You Information Find

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

Book Activity Collecting Solitary

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

Moment Words House Page Dust Out

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

Attention You Enemy Understand Much

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