by Roger Cohen
Remember that the advice Einstein scribbled on a scrap of paper is far more important than the $1.5 million it just fetched at auction: “A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.”
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Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, explaining his decision not to run again for his seat: “We must never regard as ‘normal’ the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.”
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