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Barbara Tuchman

"House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself."

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"House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself."

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Amber Hurdle

"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."

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"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."

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"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts."

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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

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"Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through-and very good lists they were-very well chosen, and very neatly arranged-sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen-I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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