"Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence."

Politics, Government, Critique, Power, Structure

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"Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence."

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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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