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When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Bismarck is reported to have responded, that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
~ George Louis Beer
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
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An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Carmen Michelle Lynch — the American stand-up comedian — was born on this day — January 17, 1972 — in California.
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There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.
~ Edmund Cooper
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