Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
The moderate can only hope to be disciplined enough to combine in one soul, as Max Weber put it, both warm passion and a cool sense of proportion.
Evan Thomas writes that Ike told his grandson, David, that that smile came not from some sunny feel-good philosophy but from getting knocked down by a boxing coach at West Point. ‘If you can’t smile w...
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