Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
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Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
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Att vara politiker är som att vara fotbollstränare. Man måste vara tillräckligt smart för att begripa spelet och tillräckligt dum för att tycka att det är viktigt.
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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We are the hero of our own story.
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We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
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I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'
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I hope the referee’s next crap is a hedgehog.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
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I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the ki...
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully.
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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Congress
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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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When I get smitten, I stay smut.
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The lower people's expectations, the higher you can go.
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