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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"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."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"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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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."
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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
Politics
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
Misunderstanding
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Poetry
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
American
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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