Lewis H. Lapham

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

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These are some quotes by American author Lewis H. Lapham Editor, who was born on January 8, 1935.

Quotes by Lewis H. Lapham

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

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