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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."


"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."


"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
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