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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

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Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

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I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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