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"Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation."
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
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"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
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