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Quote by Leo Rosten
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after theyre

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after theyre dead. – Leo Rosten

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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Philosophical
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Leo Rosten
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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strength
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Leo Rosten
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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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Martin Luther King Day
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People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. – Andrew Cuomo

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Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I havent done or some place that Ive never been or dont even know. Its just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. – Hilary Duff

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Politics is not about power. – Paul Wellstone

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Politics

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. – Alfred E. Wiggam

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