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Isabel Allende

"He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits."

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"He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits."

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"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"

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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

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

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"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!"

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"Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be."
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"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
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"I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too."
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"Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue."
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"She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them."
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"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."
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"But I don't want more things than I need, either."
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