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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
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Americans are not particularly good at sensing the real elements of another people’s culture. It helps them to approach foreigners with carefree warmth and an animated lack of misgiving. It also makes them, on the whole, poor administrators on foreign soil. They find it almost impossible to believe that poorer peoples, far from the Statue of Liberty, should not want in their heart of hearts to become Americans. If it should happen that America, in its new period of world power, comes to do what every other world power has done: if Americans should have to govern large numbers of foreigners, you must expect that Americans will be well hated before they are admired for themselves.

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
Letter From America, “The Immigrant Strain” (6 May 1946)
 
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All presidents start out to run a crusade, but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency.

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Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
Talk About America, ch. 6 (1981)
 
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
Talk About America, ch. 8 (1968)
 
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