If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one’s say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt — these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression.
~ Rollo May
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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
~ Anton Chekhov
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We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
~ Will Rogers
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~ Saul Bellow
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~ Saul Bellow
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