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Edith Wharton

"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."

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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."

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Amber Hurdle

"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Politics, it's all corrupt!"

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"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."

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Amber Hurdle

"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."

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Amber Hurdle

"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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Amber Hurdle

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."

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Amber Hurdle

"I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama's government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it."

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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
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"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
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"She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me."
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"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."
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"Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
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"There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe."
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"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
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"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."
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