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Quote by Paul Wellstone
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. – Paul Wellstone

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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. – Paul Wellstone

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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. – Paul Wellstone

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. – Horace

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. – Jeremy Bentham

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We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine

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I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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