Quote by Jose Saramago
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casti

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, youre saying you have a political conscience but you dont agree with any of the existing parties. – Jose Saramago

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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. – Jose Saramago

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I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago

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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think thats where a lot of preachers kids get off base sometimes. Because they dont see the same things at both places. – Joel Osteen

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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home. – Cameron Crowe

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It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live. – Proverb

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The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we dont do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods. – Lindsey Graham

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