What If

Pretty much up until

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Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they’re going to lose as much as they win, but we’re going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good? That was really the spirit behind The West Wing.
Aaron Sorkin

To worry is to

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To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one’s own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They’ll plague themselves with so many ‘what if’s and ‘if only’s that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don’t. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
A. Lee Martinez

Order was only restored

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Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. … What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.
Ron Paul

I’ve often wondered, what

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I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer — a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and … Read more