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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. – Herbert Marshall

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. – Lord Northcliffe

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I think we need to just be very clear about what were trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, were not trying to create the perfect democracy. Were never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. – David Cameron

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley

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Worry is a misuse of imagination. – Dan Zadra

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