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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."

"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
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