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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

~Amity Shlaes

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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Black Black Or White Break Disillusionment Expectations Governance Gray High Land Leaders Life Live Maintain Must Order Paradoxical Paved Real Rules Setting Streets Them Up Where White You Your Yourself

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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

~Bill Kristol

Topics: Average Being Better Defeat Disillusionment Elections Extra Financed Five Give Gop His Last Me Narrow Obama Path Percent Point Predecessors Presidential Romney Still Strikes Than Three Vote Voter

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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Architects Builders Disillusionment Grandeur Master Often

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Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

~David Horsey

Topics: Adrenaline Anger Between Bullying Cannot Common Cop Difference Disillusionment Encounter Far Fear Gangster Getting Life Life Is A Little Maybe Menacing Messy More Nature Person Problem Simple Stress Tell Themselves Whose

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There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.

~Dilip Kumar

Topics: About Am As Far As Come Concerned Could Country Disillusioned Disillusionment Far Get India My Own Never Own Time Would I Am

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The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Could Disillusionment Form How Idea Kind Like Melancholy Novel Some Things Used Versus Way

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

~George Santayana

Topics: Disillusionment Wisdom

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