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Conservatism Is The Tacit Acknowledgement That All That Is Finally Important In Human Experience Is Behind Us; That The Crucial Explorations Have Been Undertaken, And That It Is Given To Man To Know What Are The Great Truths That Emerged From Them.

To Buy Very Good Wine Nowadays Requires Only Money. To Serve It To Your Guests Is A Sign Of Fatigue.

One Can't Doubt That The American Objective In Iraq Has Failed - Different Plans Have To Be Made. And The Kernel Here Is The Acknowledgement Of Defeat.

Reagan Is Both Too Fatalistic And Too Modest To Be A Crudaser. He Doesn't Have That Darkness Around The Eyes Of A George Mcgovern.

Bobby Kennedy And Nelson Rockefeller Are Having A Row, Ostensibly Over The Plight Of New York's Mentally Retarded, A Loose Definition Of Which Would Include Everyone In New York Who Voted For Bobby Kennedy Or Nelson Rockefeller.