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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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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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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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