Who said “The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”?

“Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.”

“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”

“In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.”

“A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.”

“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”