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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversia

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. – Barbara Bush

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You dont just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. – Barbara Bush

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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. – Carroll Quigley

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. – Tony Campolo

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A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. – Benjamin Disraeli, 1845

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Leo Aikman

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